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FEATURES
OCTOBER 1989, VOL. 8, NO. 6
Budgetizer
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8 8-BIT PRODUa REVIEWS
YEMACY B/4, PS User's UtUity Disk, The Converter, P.O.S. Net, XR-100,
XE-GM2 and RAM-Aid.
13 MAPPING THE ATARI serialization by Ion Chodwick
Part 3 of the classic Atari 8-bit reference book.
20 NEW ATARI HAND-HELD COLOR GAME SYSTEM by Andrew Reese
Portable arcade quality at $149.95-
22 QUICK DIREaORY by Matthew Ratdiff
Easiest access to your disk contents type-in Software 41 1
25 SUPER BOnLENECK BREAKER by Eric Woodruff
Improving a powerful BASIC speed-up tool type-in Software 40 \
DEPARTMENTS
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MORE MAKEBOOT DOS
I noticed that OS/A+ , a discontinued DOS
once available from OSS, was required to
use the program MAKEBOOT.EXE in Cus-
tomizing the Atari Operating System De-
vice Handlers: Part II from Antic, May,
1989. The section labeled "OS/A+ Ver-
sion" only changes MEMLO and prints a
message, which is certainly not a DOS-
specific thing.
The problem is that the program does
not relocate to sit on the old MEMLO, but
starts instead at $2100. When the DOS 2
DUP.SYS is loaded, MEMLO is ignored, and
in this case DUP.SYS would overwrite the
program. OS/A-i- is completely memory-
resident, loading no utility package from
disk. So this is not a problem.
Also, the program does not contain a
RUNAD or INITAD segment, so, if loaded
from DOS 2, it would not run. OS/A wUl
load a file with a .COM extender and be-
gin execution at the beginning of the first
segment. Once renamed, this program wiU
work properly. The article did not men-
tion that the program must be renamed
"MAKEBOOT.COM." These are the only
problems I found, and 1 realized that there
was no reason the program should not
work properly with DOS XL (another dis-
continued DOS once available from OSS)
as well as SpartaDOS (currently available
from ICD, Inc.) since these share the neces-
sary traits.
I tested the program with SpartaDOS
3.2 and SpartaDOS X and had no prob-
lems. It should be noted that with Spar-
taDOS X the handler is not available from
the command processor, but is available
from an application. Also, users should
check the value of MEMLO before load-
ing the program to insure that it is below
$2100. Adding RAMdisk handlers and/or
R: handlers could boost MEMLO above this
value.
Assuming these are the only conflicts
with Atari DOS 2, it should be possible
to modify the program to work with DOS
2. It may already work with DOS XE with
an appropriate run segment added.
Craig Thorn
Rockford, IL
Mr. Thom^ works for ICD, but wants it un-
derstood that he is writing here on a
strictly personal basis, not as a represen-
tative of ICD. Still, he certainly knows his
assemblers and £>05.— ANTIC ED
CRIBBAGE HELPi
We've been hearing from readers about our
game Cribbage Atari, which ran in the
May, 1989 issue. As it turns out, the game
does not run properly on an 800, nor ap-
parently on a 1200XL. Unfortunately, the
Technical Editor who worked on the pro-
gram didn't know how to play cribbage,
so he never played long enough on his 800
to realize there was a problem. The testers
in our office used a 130XE and an 800XL
and had no problems whatsoever If any-
one has been able to fix the problem,
please let us know how you did it!—
ANTIC ED
ERROR CODE CONFUSION
Whenever an error code comes up I have
to stop, look up the code number, and try
to figure out what it means. Maybe you
could run some articles on error codes,
what they mean and how to handle them.
Rodney Gore
Layton, Utah
For BASIC programming Electric Charlie
by Patrick Bass (Antic, February 1987)
gives detailed error messages in pop-up
windows, so at least you don't have to
keep looking up the numbers every time.
For a guide to error trapping in your own
programs, see Heidi Brumbaugh's Error
Trapping in Atari BASIC in the February
1989 Antia
Figuring out what a particular error
means for the program, you're working
on is NEVER easy. One error number can
apply to several different situations, so
there's no way to get a definative analy-
sis of an error. Also, error messages are
often actually triggered by other problems
occurring elsewhere in the program.—
ANTIC ED
BAD KITTY
WTiUe playing Escape From Dispozon
(March and April, 1989) I found an error.
When I got to the island with the box and
kitten, I couldn't get the kitten. Instead,
I got the death routine you get when the
crabs get you. How do I fix this?
Ethan FroUch
West Palm Beach,
Florida
There is a problem, but you don't have
to fix it to play the game successfully.
Touching the kitten is supposed to be
fatal— you 're just getting the tvrong death
routine. Try luring the kitten with
sardines, instead.— /KH1\C ED
FARMERS UNITE
I agree totally with Lee Jones' letter in the
July Antic, calling for an Atari Farmers and
Gardeners Users Group. As a farmer, I am
apalled by the lack of agricultural software
for Atari 8-bit computers. That's one rea-
son I wrote my Customer List Manager,
a simple database designed to keep yearly
histories of orders. By changing the fields,
this database can be used to track the per-
formance of crops, weed and insect prob-
lems, and pesticide applications.
Thomas Andrews
Manlius, NY
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$19.95, 48K disk
Test your knowledge of State capitals,
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Happy's Programs: U.S. Presidents.
Within each category the midtiple-
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answers are rewarded with a brief ani-
mation of a waving flag.
SUPERFROGS,
FUNSPELLER
TANK MATH
TRACK STACK 2.0
(games, education, utilities)
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10 East 10th Street
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(717) 784-4545
$10 each, 48K disk
Ultrabasic announces four new soft-
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TRACK STACK 2.0 is a utility
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can transfer up to 15 unprotected M/L
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grams with a touch of a key. (Not
copy-protected.)
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and use up to 40 word sets of your
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you can Add, Subtract, Multiply, Di-
vide, do Times and Division Tables, or
practice Roman Numerals with the aid
of a TUTOR. If your answer is incor-
rea, the TUTOR works out the prob-
lem for you, step by step.
MAILING LIST PLUS
(applications software)
Twenty-Fifth Century
P.O. Box 8042
Long Island, NY 11802
(516) 932-5330
$14.95, 32K disk, printer required
Why bother with complicated data-
bases if all you need is a simple mail-
ing list program? Mailing List Plus
makes it easy to maintain your per-
sonal, club or small business mailing
lists. Names and addresses are typed
on the screen as you want them to ap-
pear on the label.
You can categorize each name and
address with any labels you choose,
such as FRIENDS, RELATIVES and
CUSTOMERS. Mailing List Plus also lets
you search your list by first or last
name, city or zip code. You can print
to standard labels, one or two columns
across, or enter new spacing for cus-
tom labels of almost any size.
MANUS ^H^^H^^
(music /applications software)
John Kelleher
4400 New Jersey Street
San Diego, CA 92116
$1995, 48K disk, printer
MANUS is a music manuscript editor
that makes it possible to hold in mem-
ory, view and edit two 80-column by
96-line pages of music manuscript.
The sophisticated cut-and-paste feature
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YEMACY B/4
Electronical Software
P.O. Box 1106
Taylor, MI 48180.
$29.95
Review By Stephen Fishbein
Mention of YEMACY B/4 in the
February 1989 Antic review of the
Star NX-1000 Rainbow printer
prompted me to order a copy of this
color printing utility from Electroni-
cal Software. With the latest improve-
ments in this handy program, as well
as availability of color printers at
much lower prices than ever before,
YEMACY B/4 has become an essen-
tial program for color printing.
The original YEMACY program was
released in 1986. It permitted four-
color printing on ordinary printers by
changing ribbons and re-positioning
the paper The method provided ex-
cellent printouts as long as the user
was careful in lining up the paper for
each additional printer pass.
YEMACY B/4 was later released for
use with the Epson JX-80 and com-
patible color printers such as the Rain-
bow 1000. That version provided an
excellent printout as well as several
utilities.
However, limited color printer sales
resulted in little interest in YEMACY
B/4 and Electronical Software had ac-
tually closed down. Then the Antic
review of the NX-1000 Rainbow
created a new interest in color printer
dumps and encouraged programmer
Michael Clayton to add major im-
provements which were recently
completed.
Clayton concluded that existing
four-color ribbons failed to print true
colors. Whether it was lack of ink on
the ribbons or the limited drying time
allowed before additional colors were
added, Clayton's solution was to al-
low up to nine additional print passes
per color. In most cases two or three
passes will provide very satisfactory
coloring. The resulting printouts fea-
ture deep, rich colors, instead of the
pale, washed-out look of single-pass
prints.
The most recent revision of YE-
MACY B/4 also includes a "poster"
program. Color pictures may now be
enlai^ed two or three times and
printed out on as many as nine sheets.
Several utilities have also been ad-
ded since the original YEMACY pro-
gram was released three years ago. A
text editor makes it possible to add
text to graphics, using any of the nine-
sector Atari fonts. You can design and
print borders around your YEMACY
prints, color data may be changed and
the print palette may be customized.
Most important, a utility is included
to convert graphics to the widely used
Micro-Painter format. The program
and files now come on three disks, in-
cluding the original YEMACY pro-
gram.
RAMdrive +
RAM-Aid
XE-GM2,
(For Atari XEGS)
Innovative Concepts
31172 Shawn Drive
Warren, MI 48093
(313) 293-0730
Review by Matthew Ratcliff
RAMdrive + XE-GM2 ($34.95) is
the sequel to the XE-GMl, reviewed
in the August 1988 Antic. The XE-
GM2 boosts the Atari XE Game Sys-
tem's 64k memory to a full 192K,
enough bytes to copy a single-sided
double density disk (SS/DD) in a sin-
gle pass. This extra memory is ideal
for user group library managers who
need to make a lot of disk copies at
a meeting in a short period of time.
This extra RAM is automatically
recognized by PaperClip II and the
newer versions of SynCalc and
SynFile-i-.
This memory upgrade kit comes
with two 41464 dynamic RAM chips
(64k by 4 bits wide), a custom in-
tegrated circuit, switch, resistor, and
hook-up wire. The documentation as-
sumes that you have already installed
the XE-GMl. If not, you should order
both kits at the same time to upgrade
the XEGS to a full 192K in one hard-
ware hacking session.
Installing the XE-GM2 upgrade is a
straightforward process requiring 17
steps. The new RAM chips must be
soldered piggy-back on the XE-GMl
chips, which are on top of the origi-
nal pair. This stack fits snugly in the
case when the XEGS is reassembled.
A 256K upgrade probably would not
fit.
If you have the XE-GMl upgrade al-
ready in place, adding the XE-GM2 is
very simple. Only one wire must be
removed from the first upgrade to
make room. I had no problems with
the installation, following the step-by-
step instructions to the letter With the
proper tools as described in the in-
structions, this upgrade should take
about an hour to complete.
The "select line" that enables this
additional 64K of RAM is used in the
XEGS to control Missile Command.
An optional switch may be wired into
the project to allow use of the game.
In this mode your XEGS has only
128K of RAM available. But if you are
playing Missile Conamand the extra
RAM is idle anyway. I installed the
switch with no complications.
The upgrade is accompanied by a
very nice RAMdisk and memory test
utility disk. A brief overview of the
files accompanies the instructions.
RAMdisk handlers for a disk designa-
tion of D2: through D7: are included.
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PRODUCT REVIEWS
as well as Atari's D8: handler for DOS
2.5.
Documentation files, suitably for-
matted for copying to the printer, are
included to help you get the most out
of your 192K of RAM with Spar-
taDOS, MYDOS, and AtariWriter Plus.
A sector copy utility called
MyCopyR!, version 2.1, rounds out
the utility package. This program can
duplicate single, enhanced, or double-
density disks in a single pass on a
192K equipped XEGS.
RAM-AID
One minor problem occurs when
all that RAM is added to an XEGS.
When you turn the computer off and
then on again quickly, the XEGS may
fail to reboot. The extra RAM tends
to retain its memory, preventing the
XEGS from cold starting as expected.
To get around this problem, Spar-
taDOS users may simply issue the
COLD command. Unfortunately, this
doesn't work if the computer locks up
or if you are using certain applications
software. When you must wait 10 to
20 seconds between turning the com-
puter off and on again to get a relia-
ble reboot on the XEGS, these RAM
upgrades can get a bit frustrating.
Innovative Concepts has come to
the rescue with their RAM-Aid
($19.95). This device has been avaU-
able for the 800XL and 130XE com-
puters for a while. The instructions
have been expanded to cover instal-
lation in the XEGS. The drawings for
the XE-GM2 upgrade also demon-
strate Ram-Aid connections.
This project will add only a few
minutes to your RAM upgrade time.
There are a few wires, a very small cir-
cuit, and a red pushbutton to hook up.
A 1/4 inch hole must be drilled in the
side of the XEGS, above the joystick
ports, for the RAM-Aid reset button.
I had no problems getting it installed,
following the concise 12-step in-
structions.
Operation is quite simple. While
pressing the RAM-Aid button, you
press and release the [RESET] console
key. Then release the RAM-Aid button
to get a picture-perfect cold start, ev-
ery time.
I did find that, when in the "128K
mode", RAM-Aid had a minor prob-
lem. Mark Elliott of Innovative Con-
cepts explained that there was a con-
flict with the operating system
software that handles the [RESET]
key. Missile Command, and the self
test software. I did find that power cy-
cling right after the unsuccessful
restart with Ram-Aid would generally
result in a proper cold start. Normally
the XE-GM2 switch will be in the
192K mode, where the Ram-Aid func-
tions properly.
Ram-Aid and the SpartaDOS X car-
tridge do not cooperate well. When
the Ram-Aid reset is initiated, it seems
that the SpartaDOS X cartridge be-
comes completely disabled, and the
disk-based DOS will boot.
SpartaDOS X is a very sophisticated
"smart" bank-switching cartridge, but
seems to become disabled by certain
software when [RESET] is pressed. I
have had this problem with quite a
few programs that do not exit grace-
fully to DOS. This seems to be as-
sociated with SpartaDOS X and not
Ram-Aid. If you are a SpartaDOS X
user, you may find using the [RESET]
key and the SpartaDOS X "COLD"
command to be more reliable.
The XE-GMl, XE-GM2, and RAM-
Aid upgrades have given my XE Game
System more power than an Atari
130XE. The instructions are well-
written, and the memory test and
RAMdisk utilities put that new mem-
ory to work right away. But remem-
ber, you are on your own when
"hacking hardware". Open the XEGS
and start soldering, and your six-
month Atari warranty is null and void.
But if you are up to the challenge. In-
novative Concepts has the products
to pump up the power of your Atari
XEGS.
P.O.S. NET SYSTEM
Xenia Research
P.O. Box 4675
Federal Way WA 98003 i
CompuServe ID: 71310,605
iS189, 128K disk
Review by Matthew RatcUff
P.O.S. Net stands for Point of Sale Net-
work, a computer-based sales system
designed to help run a small business
by combining elements of a cash reg-
ister with inventory and accounting.
The complete P.O.S. Net package
($189) includes two software prod-
ucts and a bar code reader for data en-
try. However, the elements of the
package are available in various com-
binations from manufacturer Scot
McGowan's Xenia Research.
In its simplest $69 form, P.O.S. can
be used as a cash register One of the
pins on an Atari joystick port can be
used with the software to control a
cash drawer that's also available from
Xenia Research.
We were not able to fully set up a
business to test run the software in
depth, but the demonstration pro-
gram that came with our review copy
was quite impressive. The docimien-
tation is a little difficult to follow,
presented in a set of five small book-
lets. A single volume with table of
contents and index would have been
preferable.
The software includes a pre-
configured database with fields for a
four-digit item number, product
description, quantity, and cost per
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PRODUCT REVIEWS
item. Sales tax may be specified by the
user, after which it is calculated auto-
matically for all sales. Some items may
be designated as tax-free, such as
newspapers or medicine. Tax laws
vary from state to state, and the abil-
ity to control this automatically from
P.O.S. Net is a very useful feature.
If you do not recall an item's prod-
uct number, P.O.S. Net will search its
database for the name you specify. Af-
ter the sale, quantity is automatically
updated.
With the bar code handler/reader
you can print your own descriptive
labels for your products along with
a bar code and product number. Then
you just run the bar code reader
across the label to enter the sale in an
instant. I found that the bar code
reader worked quite well, even on bar
codes made with a faded printer
ribbon.
An Atari CX-85 keypad comes with
the package. It serves to enhance the
speed of data entry, and also as copy
protection for the software. You can
back up the program disks, but P.O.S.
Net will not run unless the keypad is
plugged into the machine.
The customer's name, address, and
phone may also be entered as part of
the sale. The customer information is
not part of the database, however.
A report generator is available from
the management menu. Here all out-
of-stock or low-stock items may be
listed or printed, resulting in a com-
plete order summary. The report
generator may also be used to print
a catalog of your product line, by item
number or alphabetized item names.
The reports may be used to track
the sales rate of a particular item or
even the sales performance of an em-
ployee, since an employee number
may be associated with each sale if
desired. These reports are protected
by a security code access, so the boss
can protect sensitive data.
P.O.S. Net supports up to seven ad-
ditional terminals which are con-
nected to the host computer through
the Micronet adapter from Supra (not
included with RO.S. Net). This box al-
lows multiple Atari computers to
share the same set of peripherals au-
tomatically (no manual switching re-
quired).
XR-100 SOFTWARE
The XR-100 software enables you
to develop your own applications
with the bar code reader. Extensive
BASIC program examples are
provided in the manual.
The XR-100 software loads a spe-
cial handler into the K: device driver
of your computer. It constantly mo-
nitors the bar code reader in joystick
port 1. When the reader is passed over
a "modified code 39 " bar code, the
software deciphers the black stripes
into their proper values.
This data is then presented to the
computer as if it were typed from the
keyboard. This allows you to use the
bar code for data entry at any place
a program expects keyboard input
from the K: device. The codes can be
from one to four digits (or characters)
long.
However, this device cannot read
UPC (universal price code) symbols
like those you find on all your grocer-
ies. The UPC code format is far more
complicated to read than the "modi-
fied code 39". The bar code reader
has a simple LED for data detection,
while grocery store scanners must use
lasers for reading.
OTHER USES
What good is the XR-100 software
and bar code reader? It can be used
to help organize just about any col-
lection. You could write a program to
maintain a database of a book or rec-
ord collection, for example. Xenia Re-
search provides a Contest Bar Code
program with the XR-100 package.
Bar codes may be printed as "tickets"
for a contest entry, for your user
group's monthly door prize, for exam-
ple. The contestants have their bar
codes read on the way out of the
meeting, and the winner will be de-
tected automatically.
The bar code reader that came with
P.O.S. Net is made by Radio Shack.
The part number is 26-1183- It was
made for the Tandy Model 102 lap-
top computer. Its connector is a DB9
joystick type, compatible with the
Atari 8-bit. If you purchase a bar code
reader from Xenia, it comes precon-
figured for the Atari.
However, you may wish to pur-
chase your own bar code reader from
Radio Shack. Some wires must be
moved, but the connector is easily
disassembled so the black wire can be
moved to ground, pin 8. The red wire
goes to +5 volts, pin 7. The white
wire goes to the trigger input, pin 6.
P.O.S. Net requires a lot of Atari
power to run. It seems well-suited to
a small business operation. The user
interface is very well done, for all
components of the software. The
documentation is rather brief, and it
does seem to concentrate more on the
technical aspects than the basics of
operation. If this specific application
is not for you, then the XR-100 pack-
age will provide the tools to create
your own custom bar code appli-
cation.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
128K or larger XL/XE computer
(64k XL/XE computer may be used
as terminal 2-8)
Supra Micronet, if more than one
terminal is desired
Double density disk drive (XF551
or doubled density 1050)
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Epson-compatible printer
Optional 1020 printer
XR-100 & BAR CODE RE-
QUIREMENTS:
48K Atari computer
Atari 810, 1050, or XF551 disk
drive
Epson-compatible printer
PRICES:
P.O.S. Net software $69
XR-100 software & manuals $69
P.O.S. Net, bar code handler $99
P.O.S. Net, bar code handler, XR-100
software & manuals $125
XR-100 software & manuals, bar-
code reader $179
P.O.S. Net, barcode handler/reader,
XR-100 software & manuals $189
THE CONVERTER
No Frills Software
800 East 23rd Street
Kearney, NE 68847
(308) 234-6250.
$21.95, 48K disk
Reviewed by Chester Cox
Atarians have so many choices when
it comes to printing utilities — and
we're still not satisfied. We want to use
Print Shop icons in Print Power or
Newsroom. News Station lets us use
KoalaPad or Print Shop pictures, but
we want to include Print Power or
Newsroom pictures also. Newsroom
Converter in the December 1988
Antic lets us put Graphics 8 or Print
Shop pictures in Newsroom, but it still
doesn't go far enough.
The folks at No Frills Software evi-
dently felt the same. The Converter
by Chris Wareham connects News-
room with Print Shop with Print
Power with AwardWare. In so doing,
it also provides utilities which the
original programs lack.
Primarily, the Converter will read
pictures (Let's call them all pictures,
and dispense with "icons," "clip-art,"
or what have you.) from Print Shop,
Print Power, or AwardWare, and saves
it in either Newsroom photo, Award-
Ware graphic, or AwardWare seal
format.
It will permit you to format a disk
in Newsroom format if you have a
1050 or compatible drive. It'll let you
view the directory of any of the
above-mentioned formats, and let you
view the pictures on the disks. It will
even let you use more than one
drive — an obvious requirement
which too many programs omit.
For Print Power users, the Con-
verter opens up a large range of pos-
sibilities. The Converter will convert
AwardWare graphics or seals (those
little pictures) quickly, as well as con-
vert Print Shop icons, to Print Power.
Even better, the Converter's editing
features permit us to finally create our
own Print Power pictures, or to edit
existing ones. Print Shop owners
might find the editing features
useful — it's more powerful than Print
Shop's own drawing feature.
Fortunately, the Converter is ex-
tremely easy to use. I say "for-
tunately" because the documentation
is extremely difficult to read. When
they call themselves "No Frills," they
aren't joking. The documentation is
faded photocopying. No Frills offers
extremely low prices (their disks start
at $2) and laige royalty percentages
to their authors — one tradeoff is in-
expensive manuals.
No Frills also offers many, many
disks of Print Shop graphics, fonts,
and borders. My newsletters, notices,
and signs have become locally famous
around the Denver area. This is espe-
cially remarkable when 1 reveal that
my ability to draw a straight line is nil.
Does the Converter do everything?
Not quite. I still want to convert some
Newsroom pictures to Print Power or
Print Shop, and would like to convert
Print Power to Print Shop icons eas-
ily. The freedom this would allow me
when using News Station (which ac-
cepts Koala pictures and Print Shop
icons) would be thrilling. No Frills an-
ticipates a "Converter Companion" in
February which will enable exactly
these options, so it's merely a matter
of waiting.
With the Converter, many of my
complaints about Newsroom fall by
the wayside. You now can produce
drawings far superior to any of
Springboard's Clip Art disks. And the
one failure of Print Power is
overcome — ^we can draw Print Power
or AwardWare pictures quickly and
simply, or use a Print Shop drawing
program then convert.
Any program which did any one of
the above deeds would be considered
a good buy at $20. This is a bargain —
at a "No Frills" price.
PS USER'S UTILITY DISK
No Frills Software
800 East 23rd Street
Kearney NE 68847
(308) 234-6250
$31.95, 48K disk
Reviewed by Chester Cox
There are several public domain pro-
grams for users of Broderbund's clas-
sic Print Shop software. But nothing
combines so many simple-to-use util-
ities like No Frills Software's new
PS Users Utility Disk.
This disk lets you view all your
Print Shop icons, catalog them in al-
phabetical order and print them 70 to
a page. It will let you do the same
thing with borders and fonts. You can
OCTOBER 1989
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PRODUCT REVIIWS
transfer icons from disk to disk as
quickly as any DOS would a normal
file. You might even consider this a
quick DOS for Print Shop, since in ad-
dition to all the above the Utility Disk
will also delete, undelete and rename
icons.
More? You bet! The disk has utili-
ties to print coupons or bookmarks
with Print Shop icons, borders, and
fonts — or using those good old nine-
sector fonts. Using those same icons,
borders, etc., we can create hundreds
of labels and auto-number them. 1 just
finished over 200 labels for a local
doctor's mailing list using this utility.
The auto-numbering feature kept me
from having to use a separate database.
It also helped that PS Users' Utility
Disk let me select the size of label, be-
cause these were non-standard labels.
The manual is No Frills' usual pho-
tocopied cheapie, but it's complete
and conversational. Pay close atten-
tion to the Addendum. It lets you
know that you can use two of eight
drives at once, and that you can save
your design even after printing. And
the company's reputation for friend-
liness continues with their offer to in-
struct any person with a non-standard
printer how to use control codes.
(SASE required.)
I use Print Shop icons on a regular
basis and make labels for friends at
least once a month. To me, this util-
ity disk is worth the $31.95 price for
its friendly interface alone. It really is
easier to use than Print Shop itself.
The program also converts icons to
PS Companion format (which most
icon-using programs want), while
cataloging, a bonus I never thought
I'd find as handy as I now do. It all
depends on your use of icons.
If you use Print Shop icons with
other programs, you'll want this pro-
gram. If you use PS borders or fonts,
you need this program. Each Atari
user can make a significant difference
by supporting the really useful 8-bit
products which come our way. The
PS User's Utility Disk is one such
product. A
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112,113
70,71
ROWAC 116,117
74,75
ENDPT
ROWAC and COLAC (below) are
both working accumulators for the
control of row and column point
plotting and the increment and decre-
ment functions.
114,115 72,73 COLAC
Controls coliunn point plotting.
End point of the line to be drawn.
Contains the larger value of either
DELIAR or DELIAC (locations 118 and
119, below) to be used in conjunction
with ROWAC/COLAC (locations 112
and 114, above) to control the plot-
ting of line points.
118
76
DELTAR
Delta row; contains the absolute
value of NEWROW (location 96; 860)
minus ROWCRS (location 84; $54).
119,120
77,78
DEtlAC
Delta column; contains the abso-
lute value of NEWCOL (location 97;
$61) minus the value in COLCRS (lo-
cation 85; $55). These delta register
values, along with locations 121 and
122 below, are used to define the
slope of the line to be drawn.
121
79
ROWINC
The row increment or decrement
value (plus or minus one).
122
7A
COLINC
The column increment or decre-
ment value (plus or minus one).
ROWINC and COLINC control the
direction of the line drawing routine.
The values represent the signs derived
from the value in NEWROW (location
96; $60) minus the value in ROWCRS
OCTOBER 1989
13
(location 84; $54) and the value in
NEWCOL (locations 97,98; Si6l,$62)
minus the value in COLCRS (locations
85,86; J!55,«56).
123
7B
SWPFLG
Split-screen cursor control. Equal
to 255 (SFF) if the text window RAM
and regular RAM are swapped; other-
wise, it is equal to zero. In split-screen
modes, the graphics cursor data and
the text window data are frequently
svrapped in order to get the values as-
sociated with the area being accessed
into the OS data base locations 84 to
95 ($54 to $5F).
124
7C
HOLDCH
A character value is moved here be-
fore the control and shift logic are
processed for it.
125
7D
INSDAT
Temporary storage byte used by the
display handler for the character
under the cursor and end of line de-
tection.
126,127
7E,7F
COUNTR
Starts out containing the laiger
value of either DELTAR (location 118;
«76) or DELTAC (location 119; $77).
This is the number of iterations re-
quired to draw a line. As each point
on a line is drawn, this value is
decremented. When the byte equals
zero, the line is complete (drawn).
USER PAGE ZERO RAM
User and/or BASIC page zero RAM
begins here. Locations 128 to 145 ($80
to $91) are for BASIC program
pointers; 146 to 202 ($92 to $CA) are
for miscellaneous BASIC RAM; 203 to
209 ($CB to $D1) are unused by BA-
SIC, and 210 to 255 ($D2 to $FF) are
the floating point routine work area.
128,129
80,81
LOMEM
Pointer to BASIC'S low memory (at
the high end of OS RAM space). The
first 256 bytes of the memory pointed
to are the token output buffer, which
is used by BASIC to convert BASIC
statements into numeric representa-
tion (tokens; see locations I36, 137;
$88, $89). This value is loaded from
MEMLO (locations 743,744;
$2E7,2E8) on initialization or the ex-
ecution of a NEW command (not on
RESET!). Remember to update this
value when changing MEMLO to re-
serve space for drivers or buffers.
130,131 82,83
VNTP
Begiiming address of the variable
name table. Variable names are store
in the order input into your program,
in ATASCII format. You can have up
to 128 variable names. These are
stored as tokens representing the vari-
able number in the tokenized BAISC
program, numbered from 128 to 255
($80 to $FF).
The table continues to store vari-
able names, even those no longer used
in your program and those used in di-
rect mode entry. It is not cleared by
SAVEing your program. LOADing a
new program replaces the current
VNT with the one it retrieves from the
file. You must LIST the program to
tape or disk to save your program
without these unwanted variables
from the table. LIST does not SAVE the
variable name or variable value tables
with your program. It stores the pro-
gram in AIASCII, not tokenized form,
and requires an ENTER command to
retrieve it. You would use a NEW
statement to clear the VNT in mem-
ory once you have LISTed you
program.
Each variable name is stored in the
order it was entered, not the ATASCII
order With numeric (scalar) variables,
the MSB is set on the last character in
a name. With string variables, the last
character is a "$ " with the MSB (BIT
7) set. With array variables, the last
character is a "(" with the MSB set.
132,133 84,85
VNTD
Pointer to the ending address of the
variable name table plus one byte.
When fewer than 128 variables are
present, it points to a dummy zero
byte. When 128 variables are present,
this points to the last byte of the last
variable name, plus one.
134,135 86,87
WTP
Address for the variable value ta-
ble. Eight bytes are allocated for each
variable in the name table as follows:
Byte
1
2
3 4
5 6
7 8
Variable
Scalar
00
var#
— six byt£
; BCD constant —
—
Array;DlMed
65
var#
offset
first
second
unDIMed
64
from
ST\RP
DIM + 1
DIM + 1
String; DIMed
129
var#
offiset
length
DIM
unDIMed
128
from
STA.RP
14
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In scalar (undimensioned numeric)
variables, bytes three to eight are the
FP number; byte three is the expo-
nent; byte four contains the least sig-
nificant two decimal digits, and byte
eight contains the most significant
two decimal digits.
In array variables, bytes five and six
contain the size plus one of the first
dimension of the array (DIM + 1;
LSB/MSB), and bytes seven and eight
contain the size plus one of the sec-
ond dimension (the second DIM +
1; LSB/MSB).
In string variables, bytes five and
six contain the current length of the
variable (LSB/MSB), and bytes seven
and eight contain the actual dimen-
sion (up to 32767).
136,137
88,89
STMTAB
The address of the statement table
(which is the beginning of the user's
BASIC program), containing all the
tokenized lines of code plus the im-
mediate mode lines entered by the
user Line numbers are stored as two-
byte integers, and immediate mode
lines are given the default value of line
32768 ($8000). The first two bytes of
a tokenized line are the line number,
and the next is a dummy byte reserved
for the byte count (or offset) from the
start of this line to the start of the next
line.
Following that is another count
byte for the start of this Une to the start
of the next statement. These count
values are set only when tokenization
for the line and statement are
complete.
Tokenization takes place in a 256
byte ($100) buffer that resides at the
end of the reserved OS RAM (pointed
to by locations 128,129; $80, $81).
138,139 8A,8B STMCUR
Current BASIC statement pointer,
used to access the tokens being cur-
rently processed within a line of the
statement table. When BASIC is avrait-
ing input, this pointer is set to the be-
ginning of the immediate mode (line
32768).
140,141
8C,8D
STARP
The address for the string and ar-
ray table and a pointer to the end of
your BASIC program. Arrays are
stored as six-byte binary coded deci-
mal numbers (BCD) while string
characters use one byte each. The ad-
dress of the strings in the table are the
same as those returned by the BASIC
ADR function. Always use this func-
tion under program control, since the
addresses in the table change accord-
ing to your program size.
142,143
8E,8F
RUNSTK
Address of the runtime stack which
holds the GOSUB entries (four bytes
each) and the FOR-NEXT entries (16
bytes each). The POP command in
BASIC affects this stack, pulling en-
tries off it one at a time for each POP
executed. The stack expands and con-
tracts as necessary while the program
is rurming.
Each GOSUB entry consists of four
bytes in this order: a zero to indicate
a GOSUB, a two-byte integer line
number on which the call occurred,
and an offset into that line so the RE-
TURN can come back and execute the
next statement.
Each FOR-NEXT entry contains 16
bytes in this order: first, the limit the
counter variable can reach; second,
the step or counter increment. These
two are allocated six bytes each in
BCD format (12 bytes total). The 13th
byte is the counter variable number
with the MSB set; the l4th and 15th
are the line number and the l6th is
the line offset to the FOR statement.
144,145
90,91
MEMTOP
Pointer to the top of BASIC mem-
ory, the end of the space the program
takes up. There may still be space be-
tween this address and the display list,
the size of which may be retrieved by
the FRE(0) command (which actually
subtracts the MEMTOP value that is
at locations 741 and 742; $2E5, S2E6).
Not to be confused with locations 741
and 742, which have the same name
but are an OS variable. MEMTOP is
also called TOPSTK; it points to the
top of the stack space pointed to by
RUNSTK above.
186,187
BA,BB
STOPLN
The line where a program was
stopped either due to an error or the
use of the BREAK key, or a STOP or
a TRAP statement occurred. You can
use PEEK (186) -1- PEEK (187) * 256
in a GOTO or GOSUB statement.
195
C3
ERRSAVE
The number of the error code that
caused the stop or the TRAP. You can
use this location in a program in a line
such as:
10 IF PEEK (195) < > 144 THEN 100
201
C9
PT\BW
This location specifies the nimiber
of colimins between TAB stops. The
first tab will be at PEEK (201). The de-
fault is ten. This is the value between
items separated in a PRINT statement
by commas — such as PRINT
AS,LOOP,C(12)— not by the TVB key
spacing.
The minimum nimiber of spaces
between TABS is three. If you POKE
201,2, it will be treated as four spaces,
and POKE 201,1 is treated as three
spaces. POKE 201,0 will cause the sys-
tem to hang when it encounters a
PRINT statement with commas. To
change the TAB key settings, see TAB-
MAP (locations 675 to 689; $2A3—
«2B1). PTA.BW is not reset to the de-
fault value by pressing RESET or
changing GRAPHICS modes (unlike
TABMAP). PTABW works in all
GRAPHICS modes, not merely in text
modes. The size of the spaces be-
tween items depends on the pixel size
in the GRAPHICS mode in use. For ex-
OCTOBER 1989
15
ample, in GR.O, each space is one
character wide, while in GR.8 each
space is one-half color clock (one dot)
wide.
these locations for an interrupt rou-
tine, since such routines might occur
during an FP routine called by BASIC,
causing the system to crash.
FP representation, leaving the result
in FRO. To reverse this operation, do
aJSR to $D9D2 (55762).
218-223
DA-DF
203-207
CB-CF
* * * 212-217
D4-D9 FRO
Unused by either BASIC or As-
sembler.
208-209
DO-Dl
Unused by BASIC.
210-211 D2-D3 * * * *
Reserved for BASIC use.
Locations 212 to 255 {$B4 to $FF)
are reserved for the floating point
package use. The FP routines ae in
ROM, from locations 55296 to 57393
(SD800 to JJE031). These page zero lo-
cations may be used if the FP pack-
age is not called by the user's pro-
gram. However, do not use any of
Floating point register zero; holds
a six byte internal form of the FP num-
ber The value at locations 212 and
213 are used to return a two byte hex-
adecimal value in the range of zero to
65536 (SFFFF) to the BASIC program
(low byte in 212, high byte in 213).
The floating point package, if used,
requires all locations from 212 to 255-
All six bytes of FRO can be used by a
machine language routine, provided
FRO isn't used and no FP functions are
used by that routine. To use 16 bit
values in FP, you would place the two
bytes of the number into the least two
bytes of FRO (212,213; $D4,$m), and
then do a JSR to !i!D9AA (55722),
which will convert the integer to its
FP extra register (?)
224-229 E0-E5
FRE
FRl
Floating point register one; holds
a six-byte internal form of the FP
number as does FRO. The FP package
frequently transfers data between
these two registers and uses both for
two-number arithmetic operations.
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FEATURE APPIICATION
Budgetizer
Be prepared for those annual savings chompers
By Lee Brilliant, M.D.
Plan your monthly spending with the
Budgetizer, so those annual big bills
don't catch you unprepared. This BASIC
program works on 8-bit Atari com-
puters with at least 48K memory and
disk drive.
Surprise! You won the lottery!
Nice surprise, huh? Too bad most
surprises sound more like this:
"Uh-Oh. Property tax bill due next
month. Where are we going to get the
money?"
Surprise! Well, that's what it used
to be like around my house every
month. I was always getting big sur-
prise bills that I knew were coming,
but just didn't think about ahead of
time. Especially upsetting were those
annual or twice-yearly biggies like
property taxes or insurance
premiums.
So when I learned about the Budg-
etizer method, I wrote a program to
18
use it and since then have had no big
surprises besides automobile repairs.
Budgetizer is not just a different
budget program, but a different way
of budgeting. A typical budget pro-
gram sets goals for various areas and
simply tells you how much above or
below you are in any month. Budg-
etizer lets you set up a chart of all your
bills for the year and then calculates
how much you'll need to put aside for
the future to meet those expenses.
Most people avoid the shock of
making large payments by making
monthly payments instead of periodic
ones on such expenses as heating,
mortgage and insurance. However, if
you have an escrow account as part
of your mortgage (to pay insurance
and taxes) you should figure what you
lose each year.
If your property taxes are $1,000
each year and home insurance is
$500, then the interest which the es-
crow company earns on this money
is over $100 — ^which you will proba-
bly not get back. Budgetizer essen-
tially turns your irregular expenses
into monthly payments to your own
account, eliminating unpleasant sur-
prise and saving you money.
GEnrNG STARTED
Type in Listing 1, BUDGET.BAS,
check it with TYPO U, and SAVE a
copy to disk. When you first RUN
Budgetizer, it will ask whether your
system is using one drive or two. If
you tell the program you are using
two drives, you need to have your
data disk in drive two.
Antic disk users will find a sample
data file, BUDGET.DAT, on the disk.
Budgetizer will look for this file, and
if you choose EDIT from the main
menu you will see the expense cate-
gories already on disk.
ANTIC, THE AIUU RESOURCE
BUDGETIZiNG SYSTEM
Budgetizer allows you to list all
your expenses for a whole year, then
assigns them to one of two groups. If
the amount of an expense is the same
for every month the program con-
siders it a fixed expense If the amount
differs from one month to the next it
is considered periodic.
Fixed expenses are stored as posi-
tive numbers and periodic ones as
negatives. When you print the budget,
the fixed and periodic expenses are
totaled separately for each month and
also as grand totals.
The periodic expenses divided by
twelve gives you the monthly cost of
all the irregular bills. Each month, the
program adds the fixed costs and the
average periodic cost, then subtracts
the monthly periodic expense.
You wind up with twelve numbers
labeled RESERVE. MIN. MONTHLY
INCOME is the minimum amount of
income which you need to deposit
into your checking account each
month to cover all the expenses. RE-
SERVE represents the amount of
money that must be left in your
checking account at the end of each
month to meet upcoming bills.
There are four levels to the pro-
gram. The main menu aUows you to
select Print, Edit, Save, and Quit. Print
Save and Quit are pretty self-
explanatory, but Edit is more
complex.
USING BUDGETIZER
When you choose Edit, the pro-
gram will work with the data file,
BUDGET.DAI. If you are using two
drives, the program looks on drive 2
for this file. Otherwise it looks on
drive 1. If a BUDGET.DAT file is
found, the program loads the infor-
mation automatically.
Once you choose Edit, the next
level is CATEGORIES. You can have
up to six categories of expense, such
as Loans, Utilities or Credit Cards.
Choose a category, then go to
FIELDS. You can have up to ten fields
per category. Under Loans, for exam-
ple, you might have House and Car.
Finally, diere are twelve RECORDS
(monthly payment amounts) per
field.
Use the [CONTROL] [ARROW] keys
to highlight your choice, then press
[SELECT] to go to the next level. The
[ESC] key takes you back to the previ-
ous level. The arrow keys also allow
you to move around within the win-
dow and [RETURN] causes the pro-
BUDGET PRINTED
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APR
MY
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SEP
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340
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340
340
340
310
340
740
340
340
340
fiil IS
18
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18
18
18
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IB
18
18
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18
fUDNE 10
\2
15
10
14
12
10
10
12
16
12
20
PERSONAL
FOOD 160
m
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ISO
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160
140
160
160
160
200
aowEE :o
;o
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
nmics 80
90
80
90
SO
SO
80
SO
90
90
80
SO
BOOKS 20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
msc w
40
40
40
40
40
40
40
40
40
40
40
TRANSPORTATION
KPASS 54
54
54
54
54
54
54
54
54
54
54
54
SISC 10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
240
10
10
fiSi is
'""57!
572
5^2
572
5^2
572
572
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572
572
PEflOD 180
182
185
130
184
182
160
180
182
416
182
230
lOTAl. 752
754
757
752
"756
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RESERVE 35
48
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115
138
163
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BULMICE
—
BILLS DUE
BILLS OUT
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♦
RESERl'E
" —
AWJL BSLMCE
gram to read the data as it appears in
the window.
To eliminate a category or field,
simply make its name all blanks and
press [RETURN]. If you change a
name, only the name changes, the
data stays intact.
New fields and categories are ad-
ded to the end of the list. Only up-
percase letters and numbers are ac-
ceptable as categories and fields.
Records must be entered as numbers
only.
You can change the nimiber of
fields, record size, or the length of
names if you want. But the numbers
I used were selected because of for-
matting considerations with the
printer All the printer codes are in
one line at the end of the program and
may need to be adjusted to fit your
printer.
EQUIVALENCING HELPS
Much of the credit for this program
goes to Doug White and his article.
Equivalence, in the February, 1989 is-
sue of ANTIC. His article inspired me
with a better way to manipulate data
fields.
Although Doug White did not spe-
cifically mention this technique, I first
dimension my data array (ARRAY
11,39) then a string (ARRAYS) to the
length of one byte. Later I change the
pointers of ARRAYS to match the lo-
cation and size of ARRAY. Now I can
clear sections of the array by blank-
ing strings instead of slower FOR-
NEXT loops. I can also move data
around the array with fast string
manipulations. My hat's off to Doug
for a fascinating and useful concept.
I have used BUDGETIZER for two
years now and during this time I have
had no unpleasant major surprises.
Now if I could only win the lot-
tery. ... A
Lee Brilliant is a physician in Southern
California and a longtime Atari 8-bit
programmer-writer His work has often
appeared in Antic.
Listing on page 3S
OCTOBER 1989
19
HAND-HELD
COLOR
GAME SYSTE
Portable arcade quality at $149.95
By Andrew Reese, START Editor
Atari's new S149.95 hand-
held color game machine
was unveiled at the Con-
sumer Electronics show
in June. The one-pound unit,
powered by six AA batteries, is titled
the Atari Portable Color Entertain-
ment System. I tested several of the
units and found the games easy to use
and quite playable.
The Portable Color Entertainment
System competes with Nintendo's re-
cently announced GameBoy which is
to retail at only $89.95, but does not
have color. The PCES has a 3.5-inch
(diagonal) LCD color screen with 160
X 102 resolution and a 4,096-color
palette. It uses a 65C02 microproces-
sor running at a blazing 16 mHz clock
speed. The 64K Portable Color Enter-
taiimient System can access credit-
card-sized "game cards" with as much
as 16 megabits of ROM, allowing the
system to run highly complex games.
Four sound channels are included and
there is a built-in headphone jack for
private listening.
A unique feature of the Portable
Color Entertainment System is its abil-
ity to network with as many as seven
additional units for multi-player
games. A communications cable
California Games
comes with each unit. The package
also includes an AC adaptor, a carry-
ing pouch and Epyx's California
Games card.
The Portable Color Entertainment
System was developed in conjunction
with Epyx. It is controlled by an 8-
way joypad, plus two fire buttons and
five function buttons. The screen im-
age can be turned upside down to
make the controls more comfortable
to left-handed players.
According to Atari president Sam
Tramiel, the unit has already passed
FCC testing and goes on sale in early
Autumn. Five additional games are
also to be available — Blue Lightning,
Time Quests, Treasure Chests, Gates
of Zendocon, Impossible Mission and
Monster Demolition. Each game will
retail for $54.99. A
ATARI PORTABLE COLOR ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
TOP VIEW
Communication
Earphone Jack Port
Buttons
• Option 1
Fire Buttons
Cartridge
Ciiamber
Joypad
Contrast
Control
Screen
OCTOBER 1989
21
I 'type-In Software
By Matthew Ratcliff
Easiest access to
your disk contents
Quick
Directory
Access the directories of your disks
while using BASIC, without exiting to
DOS or needing to enter lines of code.
With the Quick Directory file on your
disk, a simple ENTER command gives
you open sesame to directories of disks
in any drive — in Atari DOS or
SpartaDOS — ^without damaging your
program in memory. This BASIC pro-
gram works on 8-bit Atari computers
with at least 48K memory and disk
drive.
22
Time and time again I lose
track of important file-
names while in the middle
of writing a BASIC pro-
gram. It's a pain to save work in pro-
gress, go to DOS, get a directory list-
ing, return to BASIC and then attempt
to remember where I left off.
A simple BASIC routine can pres-
ent a directory listing:
10 DIM A$(40)
20 TRAP 30:OPEN *1,6,0,"D1:*.*":
GOTO 40
30 ? "ERROR ";PEEK(195):END
40 TRAP 70
50 INPUT *1,A$
60 ? A«:GOTO 50
70 END
How^ever, entering all this code ev-
ery time can get tedious. Making it
part of a program in development
helps, but it's easy to foiget. The best
solution is to run an assembly lan-
guage utility from BASIC. But, this im-
ANTIC, THE ATARI RESOURCE
plies a USR routine because Atari BA-
SIC will not allow us to make calls to
DOS directly.
Quick Directory makes accessing a
current directory listing quite simple.
It will have no adverse effects on the
BASIC program currently in memory.
GEHING STARTED
Type in Listing 1, QDIRMAK.BAS,
check it with TYPO U, and SAVE a
copy to disk before you RUN it.
Listing 2 contains the MAC/65
source code for assembly program-
mers and requires the MAC/65 car-
tridge. "Vbu do not need to type List-
ing 2 to use Quick Directory.
QDIRMAK.BAS is a BASIC Quick
Directory maker. RUN it and the pro-
gram prompts you to get a disk ready
in drive 1. Some special text and data
will be written to your disk in a file
named D:QDIR.
The DrQDIR file contains two lines
of BASIC code with an embedded as-
sembly USR routine, without line
numbers. Try the command:
ENTER "D:QDIR"
Or try the Atari BASIC abbreviated
version:
E."D:QDIR
Almost immediately, the program
will request you to specify the direc-
tory you want to see. Enter D8:*.BAS
to see all the BASIC programs on the
disk in drive 8, for example. Unlike
Atari DOS command A, you can't just
press [RETURN] to see a directory of
the disk in drive 1. To see aU the files
on the disk in drive 1, type D:*.*.
Use QDIRMAK.BAS to write the
Quick Directory QDIR file to any disk
you're planning to use with BASIC,
and you'll always be able to see a
directory of your files from BASIC
with this simple command.
To see what these two lines of code
look like, remove the "REM" from
lines 90 and 150 in QDIRMAK.BAS
(Listing 1), and RUN the program
again. (You may also wish to change
the filename in line 70 to
"D:QDIR.LST".) Type the NEW com-
mand, ENTER the new file, and LIST
the program. All the odd control
characters in the string assignment for
AS make up an assembly language
USR routine. With these two lines of
code in a program, a directory listing
is as simple as "A=USR(ADR(A*))".
SpartaDOS users might notice that
Quick Directory file listings arc in the
placing in a BASIC USR routine.
While developing Quick Directory,
it was much easier to test the program
from DOS. To make a version that is
loaded and executed from DOS, sim-
ply change line 60 to:
60 CODE = COM
When CODE is set to COM,
Quick Directory eliminates time-
consuming commutes between Atari
BASIC and DOS.
long format. This makes it easy to
keep track of file size and date stamps,
as well as names.
Now, whenever you forget an im-
portant filename, simply type
E."D:QDIR to see a directory listing,
in immediate mode Note tliat you can
get subsequent directory lists by en-
tering A = USR(ADR(A$)) while still in
immediate mode. However; this could
be dangerous if you make a
typographical error, or inadvertently
2ap the variable A$ with a NEW or
LOAD command. The E."D:QDIR"
command is the safest approach, and
far simpler than trekking in and out
of DOS.
PROGRAM NOTES
Listing 2 is the MAC/65 source code
for Quick Directory. Assembly pro-
grammers should take note of the
"conditional assembly" technique
employed herc. Note the equates in
lines 40 through 60:
40 OBJECT = 1
50 COM = 2
60 CODE = OBJECT
When the variable name CODE is
set equal to OBJECT, the code be-
tween the ".IF" in line 790 and the
".ENDIF" in line 910 is assembled.
This creates an object file suitable for
MAC/65 ignores all the code enclosed
in the first ".IF", ".ENDIF" sequence
noted above. The code between lines
1630 and 1660 is assembled, however.
These lines generate the proper
header to execute Quick Directory
from DOS. This technique is a valua-
ble debugging tool, especially when
developing USR routines that rcquire
conversion to some BASIC-
compatible format before testing.
The rest of the MAC/65 program is
made up of straightforward calls to
the CIO to open files, close files, in-
put strings, and display strings. Stuff-
ing the number 128 into ICAUX2
(lines 1310 and 1320) starts the Spar-
taDOS long directory listing format.
It has no side effects on Atari DOS.
Quick Directory eliminates many
frustrating, time-consuming com-
mutes between Atari BASIC and DOS.
Since it runs in immediate mode, it
consumes no valuable RAM. It does
not gobble up Page 6 or 4, common
hangouts of many USR routines. En-
ter QDIR the next time you require
directory assistance in a hurry. A
Matthew Ratclijf regularly answers users'
technical questions on CompuServe's
ANTIC ONLINE.
Listing on page 4 1
OCTOBER 1989
23
SUPER DISK BONUS
Capture The Flag!
Two-player madness at machine language speed
By Brad Timmins
Anned with disintegration
pistols, you and your op-
ponent race through gi-
ant mazes in a mad dash
to Capture the Flag! This month's
Antic Super Disk Bonus is pro-
grammed entirely in speedy ma-
chine language. It's a challenging
two-player game that requires two
joysticks and at least 48K memory.
It's the year 2044. Ultra-violent
TV game shows are at the height of
their popularity. The most popular
game on the airwaves is Capture the
Hag! which is played in a giant maze.
The two home bases are placed
in the upper left and right comers
of the maze. A flag is placed at the
very bottom of the maze. Tsvo con-
testants enter with their disintegra-
tion pistols. The player who cap-
tures the flag and successfully
returns it to home base wins the
round. The first player to capture
five flags wins the game and saves
his life!
Capture the Flag! author Brad
Timmins lives in Sandy, Utah. His
program Macro /JfSJ??" appeared in
the January, 1989 Antic.
USING THE PROGRAM
You'll find Capture the Flag! on
this month's Antic Disk as CAP-
TURE.OBJ. Copy this file to another
disk formatted with DOS 2.0 or
DOS 2.5. Don't try to run it directly
from the monthly Antic Disk.
Be sure your new disk contains
the DOS.SYS file. Use DOS com-
. H..M': ....J,v......K
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mand E to rename CAPTURE.OBJ to
AUTORUN.SYS. Turn off your com-
puter and remove all cartridges.
Place the disk in drive 1. If you're
using an XL or XE computer, hold
down the [OPTION] key while you
turn on your computer Capture the
Flag! will load and run automat-
ically.
HOW TO PLAY
Capture the Flag! requires two
joysticks, plugged into ports 1 and
2. At the beginning of each round,
both players are placed on their
home bases. To move your player,
press the joystick in the desired
direction.
Each player is outfitted with a dis-
integration pistol that has a maxi-
mum of four shots. To fire, move the
joystick in the direction you want to
fire and press the button. Pistols can
be used to blast through walls, or to
blast the other player A player who
is hit goes immediately back to
home base. If the player was carry-
ing a flag, it will be dropped where
the player was hit.
Each maze that's generated is far
too large to be displayed on a single
screen. Instead, each player has a
scrolling window. A master map is
displayed at the bottom of the
screen, showing players' relative
positions — ^but not the actual vraUs
of the maze
To pick up the flag, simply move
on top of it. The flag is quite heavy
and will slow down the movement
of the player carrying it. Also, when
the flag is carried by one player, the
other player gets unlimited
ammunition — but only while the
first player holds the flag. As soon
as the flag is dropped, the amount
of ammunition returns to its previ-
ous level.
If you manage to make it back to
base safely with one flag, a new
maze appears, and off you go again.
The first person to collect five flags
is the Grand Champion.
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OCTOBER 1989
Type-In Soflu
Bottleneck Breaker
Contest winner improves powerful BASIC speed-up tool
By Eric Woodruff
The April 1989 issue of Antic ran a program
called Bottleneck Breaker by Stan Lackey.
This BASIC profiler measured how much
time a running BASIC program spent ex-
ecuting any particular line or group of lines.
Once identified, the most heavily used lines
could then be streamlined to speed up the
program's performance.
Antic challenged readers to relocate the
profiler's counters to the 130XE's alternate
memory bank, allowing the profiler to work
with larger programs. The winning entry.
Super Bottleneck Breaker, not only uses the
extra memory of an XE, but features addi-
tional modifications that make the origi-
nal more user friendly. This BASIC program
works on 8-bit Atari computers with at least
48K memory and disk drive.
ANTIC, THE ATARI RESOURCE
I have made the modifications to
Bottleneck Breaker so that the
counters are now located in the
130XE's extra memory.
In addition, I modified the profiler
to make use of all the 130XE's ex-
tended memory and now there is a
counter for each line of a BASIC pro-
gram from 0 through 31767 inclusive.
I have also made changes that allow
the profiler's interrupt routine to be
placed anywhere in memory with a
few changes to the loader.
By default, Super Bottleneck
Breaker is loaded into Page 6 starting
at memory location 1536. By modify-
ing the value of the variable START in
line 100, the profiler can be placed at
a different memory location. If you
prefer to reserve memory for it, you
can place a REM on line 100 and re-
move the REM from line 80.
I moved the profiler on/off flag to
memory location 1278 («04FE hex).
This allows for the program's mobil-
ity. One other thing. Super Botdeneck
Breaker will now detect if the pro-
gram is running or not, using the
on/off flag set to on if the program is
running (POKE 1278, non-zero
value). If the BASIC program is not
running, the profiler will turn the flag
off for you and stop profiling.
Super Bottleneck Breaker's analy-
sis routine has also been modified to
take advantage of the extended mem-
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fied number of bottlenecks (1-255).
CAUTIONS
Ttie same cautions given in the
original article still apply. The pro-
gram you are profiling caimot use
lines 1-3 or 31765-31766, or you
won't be able to add the program lines
which control the profiler. If the
profiler tries to sample your program
while the BASIC interpreter is mov-
ing from one line to the next, a gar-
bage line number will appear in the
final report. This happens rarely
enough that it does not affect the re-
sults in any significant way.
One exception to the original cau-
tions is that the only memory loca-
tions the Profiler now uses are 208
and 209 (8D0, »D1 hex). Still, if your
program uses these locations, the
profiler may produce wrong answers
or crash.
GEHING STARTED
Type in Listing 1, PROFILEl.BAS,
check it with TYPO II and SAVE a
copy to disk.
Next, type NEW, then type in List-
ing 2, PROFILE2.LST, check it with
TYPO II and LIST a copy to disk. If
you have trouble typing the special
characters in line 2, don't type them
in. Instead, type in Listing 4 and
check it with TYPO II. When you
RUN Listing 4, it creates this hard-to-
type line and stores it in a file called
LINES.LST (Make sure you don't al-
ready have a file by that name on your
disk before you RUN Listing 4.)
To merge the two programs, type
NEW, then ENTER "D:PROFILE2.LST"
and then ENTER "D:LINES.LST ". Be
sure to LIST the completed program
to disk.
Now, type NEW, then type in List-
ing 3, PROFILE3.BAS, check it with
TYPO II and SAVE a copy to disk.
In addition to the programs needed
to run the profiler, Antic Disk owners
will find three MAC65 files on disk
containing source code for the
profiler (PROFILE.M65) and for the
assembler routines that the profiler
uses (MEMCLR.M65, CNTANL.M65).
These files are included for the refer-
ence of MACy65 programmers and arc
not needed to run the profiler.
USING THE PROFILER
The procedure for miming the
Profiler is still the same as the original:
1. RUN "DrPROFILEl.BAS " to load
the Profiler into memory.
2. LOAD the program to be
profiled.
3- Check that the program does not
contain lines numbered 1, 2, 3, 31765,
or 31766.
4. ENTER "D:PROFILE2.LST"
5. RUN your program.
6. RUN "D:PROFILE3.BAS"
When you run PROFILE3.BAS, the
screen will blank and there is a slight
delay while the analysis routine is
loaded into memory. You are then
asked how many bottlenecks you
want to see. Enter a number from 1
to 255. The program then asks if you
are sure. If the wrong number was en-
tered, just type an [N] and press [RE-
TURN]. A new value can then be
entered.
Next, the program informs you that
the screen will blank during analysis
and gives an estimated time
(minutesrseconds) for the analysis.
The time will vary from a few seconds
for a small number of bottlenecks, up
to about 8 minutes 6 seconds for 255
bottienecks. To begin the analysis, just
press [START].
When the analysis is complete, the
screen will reappear and the total
counts will be accumulated. A prompt
will then appear asking if the report
wil be sent to the screen or printer.
Just enter an [S] or a [P] depending
on your preference. A report is then
prepared showing the line number,
number of counts, percentage of to-
tal counts taken up by the line, and
a cimiulative percentage. A
Eric Woodruff lives in Medical Lake,
Washington. This is his first Antic ap-
pearance
Listing on page 40
OCTOBER 1989
SUPER DISK BONUS
Adventure Contest
Winners
Fusebox, Beacbcomber and Discovery Incident
Article by Carolyn Cusbman, Antic Assistant Editor
Fusebox
When Antic pub-
lished David
Wooley's Adven-
ture Works article
in the April, 1989 issue, we
challenged teaders to come up with
their own text adventures, based on
Wooley's sample. We received a
niunber of impressive entries and
had an enjoyable time picking out
the most entertaining of the bunch.
Although most of entries had fan-
tasy adventures, two of the adven-
tures that showed the most
dramatic — and most imaginative —
improvements had very prosaic
scenarios. The object of Ray Irish's
Fusebox is to change a fuse. Beach-
comber by J.G. Ulman takes you to
the beach and boardwalk for a tricky
seaside treasure hunt.
But for a science fiction adven-
ture, David Woolley himself returns
with The Discovery Incident, a
Beachcomber
mystery-adventure that puts you on
an abandoned spaceship with an un-
known alien threat.
You'Vl find all three text adven-
tures on this month's Antic Disk.
Separate HELP flies with lists of
verbs, etc. are provided for Fusebox
and Discovery Incident. Beach-
comber includes such information
as part of its title-screen sequence.
Since these ate BASIC programs,
you can RUN them directly from the
Antic Disk. But if you want to SAVE
your game to disk you will need to
copy the text adventure to another
disk containing the DOS.SYS file.
Both Fusebox and Discovery Inci-
dent will let you SAVE your game.
All three games require a minimum
of 48K memory.
As in our original sample adven-
ture, most commands require a
VERB/NOUN combination, such as
EXAMINE BED or FLUSH TOILET.
OBJECTS :HOHE ,
EXITS: SOUTH EftST
HHAT HOH?ftCTIVATE COMPUTER
HMAT HOH?REftD COMPUTER
IT READS:
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STrtRSHIP DISCOMERV'S COURSE
tAeSTIHATIOH:PLftHET EARTH.
OISTAHCE:49 LYS.
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Discovery Incident
In all three games, direction com-
mands require only a single letter To
move north, south, east or west type
N, S, E or W. Our testers found this
modification particularly handy —
typing GO and a direction every
time you move gets tedious soon.
And now, here are the storylines
for the wiiming games:
FUSEBOX
Late one night you find yourself
alone in your new home using all of
your modem electrical home appli-
ances at the same time Not a wise
thing to do, however, because you
just blew a fuse. It's up to you to re-
store electric power to your cozy
home Sounds easy? Think again!
"Vbu don't even know your way
around your new house, much less
where anything is. "tou can't even
find your cat, who's been missing
since you moved in. . . p-
ANTIC. THE AIARI RESOURCE
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Fusebox author Ray Irish added
some fancy screens and special ef-
fects that almost make dying worth
it. To make things trickier, the list-
ing has been encrypted by the au-
thor. \bu can't just read the program
listing to figure out the objects and
commands you need.
Fusebox has relatively few rooms
to explore, but a lot is packed into
those few rooms. It's a good idea to
make a map, so you don't miss any-
thing. Most of the things you find
do something — if the command you
use doesn't work, try another.
Kay Irish of Federal Wxy, WasYung-
ton is 20 years old. His interests in-
clude Japanese comics and anima-
tion, British science fiction
television, Christian metal music and
restoring his 1964 Olds Cutlass con-
vertible. To top it off, he currently
works for Toys 'R Us.
BEACHCOMBER
To play Beachcomber, RUN
BEACH.BAS from this month's Antic
Disk. Beachcomber opens with a
handy information screen full of
commands and a short scenario.
Then press [RETURN] and the actual
adventure (in the file BEACH .GAM)
will RUN.
Among other modifications in
this adventure, you can drop items
and come back to them — but items
left unattended may well be stolen.
There's also a number of things you
can't do unless you do something
else first, adding to the challenge of
the game. If it seems that the shops
on the boardwalk arc all closed,
keep exploring. At worst you'll just
have to retreat to your hotel, sim-
bumt and thirsty, without your
treasures.
What makes Beachcomber partic-
ularly interesting is the tricky solu-
tions some of the problems require.
"Vbu'll find some things you need
with ease, while others prove mad-
deningly elusive Once you solve the
various puzzles, you should be able
to complete the adventure in about
15 minutes — but don't expect to be
able to do so the first time out, or
even the fourth.
DISCOVERY INCIDENT
David Woolley, author of the
original Escape From Bamaby's
Isle, returns with a science fiction
mystery, the Discovery Incident.
You're the captain of the storship
Discovery, and you just awakened in
the ship's infirmary — ^with a slight
case of amnesia. Your crew has dis-
appeared, and there's a strange, alien
carmister in the launch bay. It's up
to you to figure out what happened
and save Earth from an alien threat.
The Discovery Incident is on the
Antic Disk as ADVENT.BAS. This
text adventure even includes a menu
and a special "high tech" character
set. If you prefer the standard Atari
characters, you can SWAP SETS from
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T^'pe-In Softtrare I
Beam Me Up!
Stuck inside the radioactive caverns beneath Mars-
With your transporter going nuts
By Steven Ginzburg
Your one-man shuttle craft
streaks through the upper
atmosphere of the mysteri-
ous planet. As you watch
the red surface glide past, you won-
der if you'U die of radiation poison-
ing or return to Earth a hero. Suiting
up, you ignore the computer's con-
stant warnings of dangerous radiation
levels. Radiation can have strange ef-
fects on radio transmissions and trans-
porter beams, not to mention hu-
mans, but you'd rather die a hero than
survive as a coward.
The transporter painlessly disas-
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sembles you. . .somewhere. After
several minutes your eyes adjust to the
dark. Patches of radioactive mold pro-
vide an eerie, dim illumination. Oh
no, you're not on the planet's surfiice,
but miles below, in a string of caverns.
"tour sensor tells you that gravity is
weak and air is almost non-existent —
but the radiation is very strong. Your
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Radiation makes contact with your
ship impossible, and your transporter
is going crazy. If you don't keep mov-
ing, you will be zapped somewhere
else \bu'll never get back to your ship
unless you reach the surface.
GETTING STARTED
Type in Listing 1, BEAM.BAS, check
it with TYPO II, and SAVE a copy to
Struggle your Tvay back to the sur-
face of Mars in this game that com-
bines challenging BASIC action
and easy-to-create Micro Illustrator
screens. This BASIC program works
on 8-bit Atari computers with at least
48K memory and disk drive
disk.
If you have trouble typing the spe-
cial characters in Lines 30, 310, 336,
810-840, 860-870, 910, 1020-1045,
don't type them in. Instead, type in
Listing 2. When RUN, this program
creates these hard-to-type lines and
stores them in file called LINfES.LST.
To meige the two programs, type
NEW, then LOAD Listing 1,
"DrBEAM.BAS " and then ENTER
"D:LINES.LST ". Be sure to SAVE the
completed program.
Listings 3 and 4 contain Micro Il-
lustrator game screens, in BASIC
loader formats. Type them in, check-
ing them with TYPO U. When RUN,
continued on page 32
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these listings will create flies named
LEVELl.PIC and LEVEL2.PIC (make
sure you don't already have files by
these names on disk).
Antic Disk users will find nine
complete screen files already on their
disk. The program will work with
anywhere from one to nine screens,
as long as the names have the num-
bered format above. When the pro-
gram can't find the next screen in or-
der, it will go to the ending routine.
PLAYING THE GAME
You start in the lower-right comer
of the screen, and try to move to the
hole on the left, maneuvering the lit-
tle man with a joystick in port 1. In
most places you will be able to move
fiieely, left and right or up and down,
following the terrain. Just be careful
not to touch any of the glowing stuff!
To avoid the patches of color-
shifting mold, you can jump or climb
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on ropes and ladders. To jimip, press
the button on your joystick, and move
the stick left, right or up. Because of
the light gravity you will jump for and
fall slowly. If at any point you get
stuck, press [OPTION].
ADDING SCREENS
This game uses screens created
with Micro Illustrator software. Tfou
can easily make your own screens for
the game. (Other picture formats can
be converted to Micro Illustrator us-
ing the Rapid Graphics Converter in
the November 1985 issue of Antic.)
Anything made in the first color
(the default is gold) is the regular
ground. If you come to a wall of this
color the litde man will climb right
up it, automatically.
The second color (green) is used for
climbable objects, such as ropes or
ladders. Don't make a border in this
color or your man could climb right
off the screen!
The third color (blue) is the deadly
material. The program makes this
color glow automatically.
Save your picture as you would
normally, but use the filename
D:LEVELx.PIC. Be sure to replace the
X with the level number you want.
Level numbers can go from one to
nine. The program starts with
LEVELl.PIC, then moves to
LEVEL2.PIC, and so on. When the
program can't find the next picture,
then the game is over, and you escape.
When making your levels, there are
a few things to remember. You should
put a border on the screens. If you
don't, the man might climb or fall out
of existence. \bu need to leave room
for the man at the lower right corner
of the screen, where he begins each
level. Also, be sure to leave a hole in
the left border for the man to go
through to finish the level.
Keep the little man's size, jump
height and distance in mind. You
might want to make an almost empty
level to test the man's capabilities.
Remember too that you only jump as
long as you hold down the button.
Short jumps can be useful, and as
challenging as the longest jimips.
When playing, you may note that
the man's feet sometimes seem to sink
below the top of the ground. This ef-
fect is caused by the program's move
routine. Make your ground at least
four pixels deep.
Let your creativity run wild. You
can make levels in fun shapes, such
as animals or words. The deadly third
color can take any shape — spikes,
spiders, snakes or anything else you
can think of.
For that matter, don't limit yourself
to just gold, green and blue. These are
only the default colors. Make your
levels, including the backgrounds, any
color you want. %u can even make
some things the same color as the
background, so they appear invisible.
Just remember that the third color
will flash no matter what you do.
PROGRAM TAKE-APART
In creating this game, I used many
of my fevorite programming tricks, in-
cluding Player/Missile graphics, string
manipulation, a machine language
screen loader, and many other ideas.
0-5 Initialization
10-70 Title Screen
100-260 Initialize P/M graphics
300-450 The heart of the program:
reads joystick, moves the character,
determines character location, and
flashes the deadly stuff
500-580 Loads the screen600650
Subroutine that moves A$ to
P/M area
700-749 Death routine
750-880 Set up MAIN$— screen
load routine
900-990 Subroutine — Beam me up!
1000-end Win routine A
Steven Gimiburg is a budding 12-year-old
programmer from Aptos, California,
and is an honors student at Aptos Jun-
ior High. He has been using Atari com-
puters since he was five and currently
oivns three of them. This is his first ap-
pearance in Antic.
Listing on page 34
32
OCTOBER 1989
SOFTWARE LIBRARY
TYPING SPECIAL ATARI CHARACTERS
The Atari Special Characters and
the keys you must type in order to
get them are shown below;
For [CONTROL] key combina-
tion, hold down [CONTROL] whUe
pressing the next key. For inverse
[CONTROL] [A] through
[CONTROL] [Z], press the [3]
key— or [>k ] on the 400/800— then
release it before pressing the next
key. (Press [ H ] or [ ./k ] again to turn
off inverse.) For [ESC] key combina-
tions, press [ESC] and then release
it before pressing the next key.
Carefully study the chart above
and pay close attention to differ-
ences between lookalike characters
such as the slash key's [/] and the
[CONTROL] [F] symbol [0].
NORMAL VIDEO
FOR TYPE
FOR TYPE
THrS THIS
THrS THIS
BCTRL ,
ffi CTRL S
QBCTRL A
m CTRL T
a CTRL B
B CTRL U
ffl CTRL 0
D CTRL V
91 CTRL D
e CTRL W
ffl CTRL E
ffl CTRL X
0CTRL F
B CTRL Y
S CTRL G
ffl CTRL Z
a CTRL H
H ESC ESC
a CTRL I
ffl ESC CTRL -
B CTRL J
ffl ESC CTRL =
H CTRL K
ffi ESC CTRL +
E CTRL L
ffl ESC CTRL *
n CTRL M
m CTRL .
â–ˇ CTRL N
ffi CTRL ;
D CTRL 0
OD SHIFT =
m CTRL P
B ESC SHIFT
ffl CTRL Q
CLEAR
e CTRL R
8] ESC DELETE
IB ESC TAB
INVERSE VIDEO
FOB
TYPE
THIS
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ESC
SHIFT
DELETE
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ESC
SHIFT
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CTRL
TAB
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SHIFT
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D
A CTRL .
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A CTRL ;
0
A SHI FT =
â–ˇ
ESC CTRL 2
â–ˇ
ESC
CTRL
DELETE
D ESC 1
CTRL
INSERT
TYPO II AUTOMATIC PROOFREADER
TYPO II automatically proofreads Antic's type-in BASIC listings. Type in the listing below and SAVE a copy to disk
or cassette. Now type GOTO 32000. At the prompt, type in a single program line without the two-letter TYPO II
code at the beginning. Then press [RETURN] .
Your line will reappear at the bottom of the screen. If the TYPO II code does not match the code in the magazine,
then you've mistyped your line.
To call back a previously typed line, type [*], then the line number, then [RETURN]. When the completed line ap-
pears, press [RETURN] again. This is how TYPO II proofreads itself.
To LIST your program, press [BREAK] and type LIST To return to TYPO II, type GOTO 32000. To remove TYPO
II from your program, type LIST "D:FILENAME",0,31999, then [RETURN], then NEW, then ENTER "D:FILENAME",
then [RETURN]. Now you can SAVE or LIST your program to disk or cassette.
t^
Don't type ttie
TYPO II CodesI
MB
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HS
BN
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H5
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32888 REM TYPO II BY ANDY BARTON
32018 REM UER- 1-8 FOR ANTIC MAGAZINE
32028 CLR :DIM LINES C128 J = CLOSE >«2:CL0
5E a3
32838 OPEN »2 , 4 . 0 . "E" : OPEN »3.5.8,"E"
32840 ? •■'«■•: POSITION 11,1:? "DiaBlinDnB"
32858 TRAP 32048 : POSITION 2.3:? "Tupe
in a progran line"
32860 POSITION 1.4:? " ■•:INPUT »2;LINE
S:IF LINES="" THEN POSITION 2,4:LI5T B
:GOTO 32060
32070 IF LINESC1,1J="M" THEN B=UALcLIN
ES t2,LENtLINES>>> :P05ITI0N 2.4!LI5T B:
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32090 B = UAL tLINESJ :POSITION 1,3:? " ••;
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R 0=1 TO LENCLINESJ :C=C+l: ANS=
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ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY
33
STUCK INSIDE RADIOAaiVE MARTIAN CAVERNS
BEAM ME UP!
Article on page 29
LISTING 1
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2 REM CC11989 ANTIC PUBLISHING INC
4 Din A$cl28i .FNS C151
5 N=l:GOTB 186
7 AS CY.Y + 9>="BBBfflmiSfflB": RETURN
18 GRAPHICS 2!P0KE 559,46:PaKE 718. 8:P
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15 POKE 752.1:P0KE 789.15!P0KE 788.287
17 FOR 1=8 TO 18
28 ? »»6;" fflBEAtia^ ftlllE UPBH"
22 NEXT I
23 POKE 53256.8
25 POKE 53248,128
38 AS t99.186>="S<BHiB<SS"
48 Y=188:G0SUB 988
58 ? :? "btf Steve Ginzburs":? s? "
PRESS START**
68 POKE 16.e4:P0KE 53774 . 64 : REM DISBLE
BREAK KEY
78 IF PEEKC53279»=7 THEN 78 : REM WAIT F
OR START
88 RETURN
188 PM-PEEKC186J-36
185 GOSUB 758
118 GOSUB 688
128 L=e!REM INITIALIZE PM GRAPHICS
178 POKE 623.2
188 POKE 784.18
198 POKE 53277.3
288 POKE 54279. PM
285 GOSUB 18
218 ASC1»="B**! AS tl28J=*'B"
228 ASC2>=AS
238 POKE 19.e:P0KE 28,8
258 GOSUB 588:REM DRAU SCREEN
266 POKE 559.46
388 POKE 53278. X:POKE 53248. X:REM MOUE
ROUTINE
382 POKE 77.e:REM STOP ATTRACT MODE
385 POKE 7ie.RND(8>«255
318 ASCY. Y + 7>=**S<fflHB<SS"!REM PUT CHARA
CTER ON SCREEN
328 IF X<46 THEN 218
338 TRAP 788:nX=X-44!MY=Y»2-23
332 M=cMY»«168 + MX>''4!R=cM-INT cM>»«4iM=I
NTtM>+SC:B=PEEKcM>
334 POKE 283.R:P0KE 285.B
336 Z = U3R(ADR c**aQa[lQ[anB[3BFnF[iBH[tlBB[BQM>'.
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INE - BIT DECODER
338 Z=PEEKt2B4J STRAP 48888
348 IF PEEKC53279>:=3 OR PEEKtl9»=19 TH
EN GOSUB 988:G0T0 388:REM IF TIME OUT
OR OPTION HIT
350 IF Z=l AND A=8 THEN 378
368 IF Z=l THEN GOSUB 7:Y=Y-2:G0T0 388
378 P
380 F
408 I
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482 B
485 I
418 I
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415 I
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428 S
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425 G
438 X
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435 I
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F A=8 AND
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8. Y.18.4:
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THEN V=Y
F STRIGC8
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7 T
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rUEN J=8
17 THEN 788
THEN GOSUB
SOUND 1.288
THEN GOSU
1.8,8.8:S
7! J = J + l:I
J»»4,ie,4
THEN J=e:SOUND 1,8.8
IF 5=15 THEN 445:REM RE
D ADJUST X AND Y
J-2»cS>8 AND S<13>!IF N
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8
445 SOUND 8.8.8,8
458 GOTO 388
500 GRAPHICS 8+16:DL=PEEKc560>+256»PEE
KC561]:P0KE 559.e:P0KE 53248. 0:REn LOA
D SCREEN
582 FOR 1=8 TO 199
583 IF PEEKCDL+I»=15 OR PEEK CDL+I> =15*
64 THEN POKE DL*I . PEEK cDL+I» -1
584 NEXT I:SC=PEEKc88>+256*PEEKt89>
585 POKE 559.8
518 L=L+1
515 TRAP 180e:IF L=10 THEN 1808
528 FNS = **D:LEUEL .PIC**
538 FNS t8.8>=STRScL>
548 OPEN «1.4.8.FNS
545 TRAP 48888
558 A=USRcADRcMAIN$ii
568 X=195!Y=184
565 CLOSE Ml
578 POKE 559,46
580 RETURN
680 REM START STRING USEAGE AS
618 UUTP=PEEKcl34>+256»PEEKtl35>
628 0=tPM»»256 + 512J -PEEKci4 8>-PEEKcl41>
»»256
630 POKE UUTP+3,INT t0^256>
648 POKE UWTP+2,0 INTC0'256>»256
645 AStl>="B**: AScl28J='*ffl**!HEM CLEAR AS
647 AS<2>=AS
658 RETURN
708 SOUND 1,6,8,8!
Y=l:REM DEATH ROUTIN
X:POKE 53256,6: V=2:RETU
X-4:P0KE 53256,1: Y=3!RE
X-12:P0KE 53256.3: Y=l:R
785 FOR 1=1 TO 35
710 R=RNDc0i iPOKE 784,Rk255
728 SOUND e,RM255,16,8
722 ON Y GOSUB 725,726,727
723 GOTO 738
725 POKE 53248,
RN
726 POKE 53248,
TURN
727 POKE 53248,
ETURN
736 NEXT I
735 SOUND 8,8,0.0
745 GOTO 118
758 DIM MAINS C342> :REM ML ROUTINE TO L
OAD SCREEN
768 RESTORE 886
776 FOR A=1536 TO 1556
788 READ B : POKE A.B
798 NEXT A
888 DATA 162,16.169.1.157.72.3,169,6.1
57. 73. 3. 32. 86. 228, 48.1. 96. 184. 104, 96
818 MAIN$ = " hlBieEIISiaBMieiflRDDKiaBQECIEI^aHf IDWDI
^iQBnD Bi^iQDfisiiinnnQBSEinQ < uam^m * *
828 MAINS c55>=**B[9ani«Bnea(aH[cirina m^wsm^wti
838 MAINS cii5i="QQxaaariiQYn^as wif^anta'-aw
846 MAINSC1751=** b^EamnflBB ^ ld[:iE]Dl^i;i[d[r|[itnani:K[il
850 MAINSC228i=CHRSC155>
866 MAINS c229>=**sarjiiB[aRmaBaQBnDaBapeDaD
DBeseimnnaxso[a''ais[aaii]BBEi[Set9amaDanaDcineSEi
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876 MAINS c291>=**mSBSaneace[riEIDDBaOeSa^B
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886 RETURN
986 FOR I = l + 28»»c NOT N» TO Y + 7:REM BEA
n ROUTINE
965 SOUND 1.6.6.6
916 A = 05RCADRc**hBB[l)BSin»**l> :REM GET RAN
DOM NUMBER AND PUT IN 784
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920 nscI,I>=CHR$cPEEKc7a4i>
925 SOUND e. 1,12. 10
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88 ? "BamisK or [itassette?"; :POKE 764,25
5
98 IF NOT CPEEKC764»=18 OR PEEKt764>=
56) THEN 98
188 IF PEEKt764J=18 THEN FNS="C!"
118 POKE 764,255:GRflPHICS 0:?
TIC'S GENERIC BASIC LOADER"
120 ? ,"BY CHARLES JACKSON"
130 POKE 10592, DPL :TRAP 288
140 ? :? :? "Creating ";FNS:?
se stand bu."
150 RESTORE : READ LN:Ln = LN:DIM A$cLN>:
C = l
160 ARS = READ ARS
178 FOR X=l TO LEN(AR$> STEP 3 : POKE 75
2,255
180 LM-LM-l! POSITION 10,10:? "CCountdo
wn . . .T-";INT<LM^18> ; ">
190 A$CC,C>=CHR$CUALCAR$(X,X+2>I1 :C=C*
liNEXT X:GOTO 160
208 IF PEEKtl95>=:5 THEN ?
AN
Plea
? :?
â– QTOO
•CANNOT CREATE FIL
MANY DATA LINES!":'
E!";END
218 IF C<LN+1 THEN ? :? "QTOO FEM DATA
LINES!":? "CANNOT CREATE FILE!":ENO
228 IF FNS = "C:" THEN ? •• 7 " Prepare ca
ssette, press cRETURNi"
238 OPEN nl,8,8,FN$
248 POKE 766,1:? nl;A$;:POKE 766,8
258 CLOSE »l: GRAPHICS 8:? "BraiilSlllilBCiinSIIIH
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BUDGETIZER
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TYPO II Codes!
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38
1 REM BUDGETIZER. U4 BV L
D. 3^22^89
2 REM cci 1989, ANTIC PUBLISHING INC
10 DIM ARRAVC59,11> , ARRAVSCIJ .DUMMVScl
6 J ,C AT SC96>, FIELDS C420> , LINES tl32> .PRS
C20>.TDTAH11>, HIDES C1J.BLANKSC72>
20 DIM HESERUEtll> iDUMMVS^-Dl'BUDGET.D
AT":OPEN «1 , 4 , 0 . "K : "
30 ? "B <1> DISK DRIUE OR <2>7";
40 GET «l.KiIF K<49 OR K>SB THEN 40
50 DRIUE=K!DUMMVSC2.2>=CHRSCDRIUE> 'GOS
Ub 1OO0O:GOTO 100
90 POKE 783,4:? "NPRESS gll[iS»n TO CHOO
5E. PRESS raaOODSEl" ! ? "AFTER EDITING. N
0 CHANGE UIHOUT"
91 ? "RETURN. PRESS BBtS TO GO BACK."!
POKE 703,24sRETURN
95 POSITION COL.ROMjGET ««6 , X ! POSITION
COL, ROM:? CHRS cX + 128* cX < 128n ' RETURN =
REM CURSOR ON
96 POSITION C0L,R0M:GET »6 , X : POSITION
COL,ROU:? CHRSCX-128»<X>127>> iRETURN :
REM CURSOR OFF
100 ? "SI â– [otsnasHPjamaicgcesnnsiimB" : ? =? "
1. PRINT BUDGET":? :? "2. EDIT":? :? "
3. SAUE"!? :? "4. HUIT"
110 POKE 755,2:P0KE 752.0:? :? "CHOOSE
ONE";
120 GET »«1,K:IF K<49 OR K>52 THEN 120
130 ? :0N K-48 GOTO 5000,2000.6000.700
0
999 STOP
2000 REM EDIT CATEGORIES
2010 POKE 755,2:P0KE 752.1:? "H »
« EDIT CATEGORIES **"
2011 ? :? " ffleeBeeeBBBeBHeee5i":F0R RO
H:=3 TO 8:P05ITI0N 4,RaU:? "HI" : POSITION
20.R0U:? "[r":NEXT ROU
2012 POSITION 4,9:? •■ffleaBeBeBeHBeeeeBSi
":GOSUB 90
2020 CAT=INTCLENCCATSJ/16> :SIZE=15:FN=
6:C0L=5:R0U=3: ASCII=32: ASCII2=90:IF CA
T-0 THEN 2040 . ^ .. ^ o
2030 FOR N==0 TO CAT -1 : POSITION 5,N + 3!7
CATS CN»16+1,N«16+15J :NEXT N
2040 GOSUD 95:G0SUB 2050:6010 2300
2050 POKE 764,255 „^,„„„
2051 IF PEEKC53279J=5 THEN 0=1:RETURN
2052 IF PEEKc764>=255 THEN 2051
2058 GET «»1,K ^ „
2060 IF PEEKC694>=128 THEN POKE 694,8:
2070 IF PEEKC702><>64 THEN POKE 702,64
:K=K-32
2080 IF
2090 IF
2095 IF
K=155 THEN U=2:RETURN
K=27 THEN 0=3:RETUHN
K=126 AND C0L>5 THEN GOSUB 96:
QE
BA
ON
KL
Jfl
RR
LC
5F
DA
EM
X5
DU
OS
Efl
UL
PE
BL
nv
VK
so
UT
ou
KT
HU
TA
AI
BB
LS
ML
EG
MI
NA
C0L=C0L-l:P0SITI0N COL. ROM:? "â– ":G0T0
2050
2100 IF K=30 AND C0L>5 THEN GOSUB 96:C
OL=COL-l:GOSUB 95:0010 2050
2110 IF K=31 AND C0L<SIZE*4 THEN GOSUB
96: C0L=C0L+1 : GOSUB 95:G0T0 2050
2120 IF K=28 AND R0M>3 THEN GOSUB 96:R
0M=R0M-1 :GOSUB 95:G0T0 2050
2130 IF K=29 AND R0H<FN*2 THEN GOSUB 9
6:R0U=RDM+l:G0SUB 95:GaT0 2050
2140 IF K<ASCII OR K>ASCII2 THEN 2050
2150 POSITION COL. ROM:? CHRS cK> : C0L=C0
L + l»cC0L<SIZE + 4> :GOSUB 95:G0T0 2050
2300 Z=R0M-3:aN U GOTO 2900.2350,100
2350 GOSUB 250O:GOTU 2000
2500 GOSUB 96:P0KE 703.4:? -H
riimmfHHBBniBa" : poke 703.24
2510 O=0!FOR N=l TO 6:P0SITI0N 4.N+2:?
"H»i" : POSITION 5.N + 2:B = 0 + 1
2520 FOR 5=1 TO 15:GET «6 , X : DUMMVS C5» =
CHRScXi:NEXT S:POKE 755, NOT cPEEKc755
» >»2
2530 IF N>CAT THEN GOSUB 26eO:G0TO 258
0
2540 IF DUMMYS=CATScB»16-15.a«16-U TH
EN 2580
2550 IF DUMMVS=" " THEN
POKE 755.2:G0SUB 2650:GOTO 2580
2560 CATS €0*16-15. Q»16-1>=DUMMVS
2580 POSITION 4,N + 2:? "[II":NEXT N
2590 RETURN ^„^„
2600 IF DUMMYS=" " THEN
a=U-l :RETURN
2 618 DUMMVS C16,16>=CHRS t8J : CATS CLEN CCA
TSJ=H>=DUMMYS
2628 ARRAYS tCAT»72e + l> ="B" : ARRAYS c cCftT
+ 1>«728»="I*" : ARRAYS tCAT«720 + 2 J = ARRAYS c
CAT»»720 + 2>
2630 CAT=CAT+l:RETURN
2650 POKE 703,4:? "HDELETING A
Y MILL ALSO DELETE ITS FIELDS AND REC
ORDS. PRESS [BSDmrnfilJ TO DELETE. StitS-
2660 ? " TO ABORT."
2670 GET «»1,K
2680 IF K=27 THEN POP : POP
4:G0T0 2000
2690 IF K0155 THEN 2670
2730 B = 0-l:IF X = CAT-1 THEN CATSCX»»16*1
J= GOTO 2740
2735 CATS C0»16*1J=CATS ca»16+17J
2736 FIELDSCO»70 + 1»=FIELDSCO»7O + 71» s FI
ELDSC351J=: FIELDSC420>= FIELDSC3
52J=FIELDSC351»
2738 IF B = 5 THEN ARRAYS c3601> = GOTO
2750
274 0 ARRAYS CO»720 + 1>=ARRAVSCB»»720 + 721>
OCTOBER 1989
CATEGOR
POKE 703,2
QG
UZ
DO
PV
UU
on
NJ
PN
GK
KD
MN
CI
TO
DB
ML
BO
RO
LZ
XU
SO
PF
BM
JT
XP
TP
CZ
MZ
01
ER
OK
IL
BV
FL
GG
UE
UU
10
PK
no
YH
UX
DC
OG
on
RH
5F
JC
US
un
HS
OB
BS
2758 ? "H-iPOKE 783.24!
2988 GOSUB 96 : IF Z<CflT
2918 IF PEEKtb3279»=5 T
2928 GOTO 2848
3888 REn EDIT FIELDS
3818 POKE 755,2:P0KE 75
»» EDIT FIELDS ♦♦»»••
3811 ? :? â– â– aeeBBBeBSI"
2:P0SITI0N 4,R0U:? "HI" •â–
!? "[Il-iNEXT ROM
3812 7 •• fflBBBBBBBffl" :G0
3828 NF = ftSCcCfiTS CZ»»16 + 1
E=7:FN=ie:C0L=5:R0U=3!fl
98SIF NF=8 THEN 3848
3838 FOR N=8 TO NF-lsPO
FIELDS «Z«78+N«7+1, Z»78+
3848 GOSUB 95:G0SUB 285
3388 CH0ICE=R0M-3:0N U
2888
3358 GOSUB 3588:G0T0 38
3588 GOSUB 96:P0KE 783
Q[:4[!]IBil@@D[S[B" : POKE 783.24
3518 Qr:e:FOR N = l TO 18:
? "Bffl"! POSITION 5.N+2:a
3528 FOR S=l TO 7!GET «
HR9CX>:NEXT S : POKE 755
>»»2
3538 IF DUnnV«=FIELDScZ
QM?! THEN 3588
3548 IF N>NF THEN GOSUB
3558 IF Dunnv«="
2iG0SUB 3e5e:G0T0 3588
RETURN
THEN 3808
HEN 2918
2,1!? ■•!!
!FOR R0U=3
POSITION 1
SUB 98
6. Z»H6 + 16>
SCII=32!nS
TO 1
2. ROU
1 !SIZ
CII2 =
SITION 5.N+3!?
N»7 + 7> !NEXT N
8
GOTO 3988.3358.
88
4!? -m
POSITION 4
= 0 + 1
6.X!DUnnY$
NOT fPEEK
*78+0»7-6.
3688 !GOTO
, N + 2 !
CS>=C
C755J
Z»78 +
3588
THEN POKE 755
, ZM78 + 0M7>=DUnnY
•[|I":NEXT N
•■THEN 0 = a-liRE
,zw7e+aw7>=DunnY
cz+l>»78>=FIELD
!FIELDScZ«78+64.
3568 FIELDS tZ»78 + n**7-6,
$
3588 POSITION 4, N+2:? •
3598 RETURN
3688 IF DUnnYS="
TURN
3628 FIELDScz*78+0«7-6-
*:NF = NF + l: CUTS CZ»*1 6 + 16. Z»16 + 16> =CHR* CN
F> :RETURN
3658 FIELDS cZ»*7e + Q»«7-6.
Scz»78 + a«7 + l. CZ + U»»78> i
Z*»78 + 78»="
3668 fiRRftYSCZ«728 + a**72-71. tZ + U*728»=fl
RHflYStZ*72e + 0«72 + l, CZ + 1»»720> --nRRnYScZ
"72 8+64 8. Z»72e+ 720 J =BLflNKS
3678 NF = NF-l:CftTScZ*»16 + 16,Z»16 + 16»=CHR
SCNFI !a=a-l:RETURN
3988 GOSUB 96:IF CHOICE<NF THEN 4880
3918 IF PEEKcb3279>=S THEN 3918
3928 GOTO 3848
4808 REn EDIT DATA
4818 POKE 755.2:P0KE 752,1!? -ii »
» EDIT DATA ««■•
4811 ? !? " ffleaBBBeB"!FOR R0U=3 TO 14
:POSITION 4. ROM:? "[II" : POSITION 11. ROU:
? "HI"! NEXT ROM
4012 POSITION 4,15:? "aeBBBBeffl" : GOSUB
90
4015 DATA JAN.FEB.nAR. APR.nAY. JUN, JUL.
AUG. SEP. OCT. NOU. DEC
4816 RESTORE 4815:F0R R0U=3 TO 14:READ
DUnnY$:POSITION 12, ROM:? DUnnYS:NEXT
ROM
4828 AR=ZM18+CH0ICE !FOR N=8 TO ll:POSI
TION 5,N+3:? ABS CARRAY < AR. N> > : NEXT N
4838 SIZE=e!FN=12!C0L=5!R0M=3:ASCII=48
! ASCII2=58
4848 GOSUB 95!G0SUB 2858
4300 GOSUB 9e!0N U GOTO 4848,4358,3888
4358 GOSUB 4588:G0T0 4080
4508 GOSUB 9e!P0KE 783.4:? "H
[lJ[:1[!l(BS@@a[Mi]":P0KE 783.24
4518 FOR N=l TO 12:P0SITI0N 4. N+2!? "B
B":P05ITI0N 5. N+2
4528 FOR 5 = 1 TO 6:GET «»6 . X > DUHMYS cS» =C
HRSCX>:NEXT S:POKE 755. NOT CPEEKC755>
J«2
4530 ARR0VCAR,N-1>=UAL cDUnnYSa :POSITIO
N 4, N + 2:? "[I1":NEXT N
4540 FOR N = l TO 11 : IF ARRAY CAR , 01 <> OKR
AYcAR.Ni THEN 4560
4550 NEXT N:RETURN
4560 POP :FOR N = 0 TO 11 : ARRAY CAR . N> =AR
RAY cflR.NiM-l :NEXT N:RETURN
5808 REn PRINT
5885 TRAP 11288:0PEN «2,8.8."P:"
5818 ? "S *"t PRINTING »»" : ? :?
5820 ? "ENTER TODAY'S DATE: "!INPUT DU
nMYS:POKE 752,1:?
OY
YP
AK
YJ
RF
BD
EI
IC
TA
UA
NL
SH
nR
IZ
CZ
CU
NG
TR
IJ
HN
UU
nn
MX
su
UE
xc
MT
PD
TP
GX
JN
OA
Nn
FZ
NE
DN
AT
KU
NJ
En
no
MM
XB
AU
LP
MT
JA
UZ
5030 ? «2;PRS:? «2 : ? tt2 ; MIDES ; "BUDGET
PRINTED ";DUMnYS:? «2
5048 ? «2;" JflN FED
nAR APR MAY JUN
JUL AUG SEP";
5858 ? «»2;" OCT NOU
DEC"
5860 FOR N=8 TO CAT-1:? tt2 ; MIDES ; CATS c
N*16 + 1.N»»16 + 15»
5878 NF=ASC CCATS cN«16+16>> ! IF NF=e THE
N 5188
5080 FOR 5 = 8 TO NF-1 : AR = N»«18 + S : ? W2 ; "
";FIELDS CAH»7+1. AR«7+7J . :FOR X=0 TO 11
:? <*2; ABSCARRAY CAR. Xi> . :NEXT X:? tt2
5090 NEXT 5:NEXT N
5108 POKE 783.4!? "iSI iaai(i[»iraHBrik'i
ra"!POKE 783.24:? »t2;LINES
5110 TOTALP=0:TOTALN=0:R=O:FOR X=0 TO
11
5128 FOR N=8 TO CAT«18
5138 D=ARRAYCN.X> :IF D<8 THEN TOTALN=T
OTALN+D
5140 IF D>8 THEN TOTALP=TOTALP+D
5158 NEXT N: TOTAL CX>=T0TALN»»-1 : R = R^TOT
ALN:T0TALN=8:P0KE 755, NOT CPEEKC755J>
5288 NEXT X : FIXED = INT CTOT ALP/'12 J : PERI 0
DIC = R''12»»-1
5210 ? «»2;"FIXED", !FOR N = 8 TO 11:? «2 ;
INTcriXEDJ , :NEXT N:? «2
5220 ? «2; "PERIOD". :FOR N=8 TO 11:? «2
; T0TALCN> . :NEXT N:? t»2
5230 ? «2;LINES:? »2 ; "TOTAL" .: FOR N-B
TO 11!? «2;INTCT0TAL CN>+FIXEDJ . :NEX I N
!? «2
5240 RE5ERUE=0!FOK N=0 TO ll!RE5ERUt=H
ESERUE-TOTALcN>+PERIODTC:HEStRUEcN>:RE
SERUEiNEXT N
5250 X = 0:FOR N = 0 TO 11:IF RESEHUEcNxX
THEN X=RESERUECN1
5255 NEXT N
5260 IF X<0 THEN FOR N=0 TO 11:RESLHUE
CN>=RESERIIECN1 -X :NEXT N
5278 ? »2!? «2;"RE5ERUE". !FOH N=8 TO 1
1!? «2;INT CRESERUECNJJ. :NEXT N:? «2
5280 ? «2:? «2;"niN MONTHLY INCOnE=";F
IXED+PERIODIC, ."BALANCE
" : ? «t2
5290 ? «2, .. ."BILLS DUE
":? «t2:? «»2. , , ,"BILL5 OUT +
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5300 ? o2, , , ."RESEROE
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5310 ? ««2. . , ,"AUAIL BALANCE
ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY
5380 ? M2;CHRSC12> :CLOSE tt2:G0T0 100
6088 REM SAUE
6010 POKE 752,1!? "SS »« SAOING T
0 DISK »»"
6015 DUMMYS="D1:BUDGET.DAT":DUMMYSC2.2
1=CHRSCDRIUE>
6020 TRAP 11308:OPEN tt3 , 8 . 0 . DUMMYS
6030 PRINT »«3;CATS:? ««3 ; FIELDS cl. CAT«7
8>:? tt3; ARRAYSCl, CATw728>
6848 CLOSE n3
&058 GOTO 188
7880 REM QUIT
7018 ? "QDATA NOT SAUED. QUIT? <Y>'N>"
7828 GET ttl.K:IF K=78 THEN 100
7030 IF K089 THEN 7020
7050 ? "HBUDGETIZER"!END
18888 0UTP=PEEKci34>+256»PEEKcl35> : POK
E UUTP+18,PEEKCUUTP+2J :POKE UUTP+ll.PE
EKcUUTP+3»
10820 POKE UUTP*14,224!P0KE UUTP+15.16
10030 ARRAYS cl>="B" : ARRAYS c4 320> ="«": A
RRAYSC2i=ARRAYS:BLANKS=nRRAYS:FIELDS=A
RR A YS
10035 LINES clJ="_"i LINES C132»="_": LINE
S C2J=L1NES
10040 OPEN »6,12,0,"S"
10045 TRAP 11000:OPEN tt2 . 4 . 0 , DUMnYS
18858 INPUT «2;CATS:CAT=INT cLENcCflTSj^
16>
18868 AD = ADRCFIELDS1:HI = INTCAD''256>:L0
=AD-H1«256:P0KE 866,7!P0KE 868.L0!P0KE
fl fi 9 H T
10065 AD=CAT»70!HI=INTCAD^256J :LO=AD-H
I»256:P0KE 872,L0:P0KE 873. HI
10070 FIELDScAD>= A = U5R c ADR C"hlll LUrfl
"J>:GET «»2.X:IF X0155 THEN 11100
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Q C Q M T
10885 ftD = CnT»»720!HI = INT cfiD''256J :LO = ftO
HIw2S6:P0KE 872.L0!P0KE 873. HI
18098 n = USRcADRC"hiB L.Uf?l"> >: CLOSE tt2
10110 MIDES = CHRS tl4J : PH$ = "BblBRIBHI«KaCI"
10120 LIMES m =••_••: LINES tl32 J ='■-" : LINE
Sc2>=LIMES
10200 RETURN
11000 CLOSE ««2:IF PEEK C195» <> 170 THEN
11820
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110
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110
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111
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100
10 CAT=8:G0T0 10110
20 ? "MDISK ERROR «" ; PEEK C195 J ; " . P
S ANV KEY.":GET ttl.K:GOTO 10045
88 CLOSE »2:? "HSOMETHING IS MRONG
H THE DATA FILES.":? "ERASE -BUDGET
T AND RESTART. ":END
00 ? "IBPRINTER ERROR. PRESS ANV KEV
GET t*l,K:GOTO 100
00 CLOSE »«3:? "PSDISK ERROR «";PEEKc
J;". PRESS ANY KEY.":GET nl.K-.GOTO
IMPROVING A POWERFUL BASIC SPEED-UP TOOL
SUPER BOTTLENECK
BREAKER
Article on page 25
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18 REH BASIC PROFILER, PART 1
20 REM BY STAN LACKEY
30 REM XE UERSION BY ERIC WOODRUFF
40 REM <ci 1989, ANTIC PUBLISHING
50 REM
60 REM If reserving MEMorw, renove REM
on line 80 and add REM to line 100.
70 REM Don't drop nuNber of pages rese
rved below 16! It's the Mininun reserv
ation so as not to cause probiens.
88 REM START=PEEKC186J*256-1B5:P0KE 10
6.PEEKC106>-16!POKE 74 0,PEEKcl06>
98 REM Otherwise, use the following li
ne. Place the address after "5TAHT="
100 5TART=1536
110 GRAPHICS 0!? :? " Loading P
120*FOR i=START TO ST ART +101 = READ AsPO
KE I. A: NEXT I
130 DATA 173,254,4,240,95.152,72,173,1
,211,72.160,0.177.138,133.208,200,177,
138,48.67.18.24.6.288.105
140 DATA 0.201,64,176,4,160.0,240,18.2
01. 128. 176. 4. 160, 1,208. 10. 201. 192. 176,
4.160.2,208,2.160.3
150 DATA 41.63.9.64,133,209,152.10,10,
24, 105, 193, 14 1.1, 211, 160,0, 177. 208, 24,
185.1.14 5,208.144,14,200
160 DATA 177.208.105.8.145.208.208,5.1
69,0.141.254,4.104.141,1,211,104,168,1
04,64
170 REM Set up tiwer interrupt-
180 HI:=:INT CST ART ^256»:L0 = S TART- cHI»2S6
>
190 POKE 528.L0:REM UTIMHl UECTOR LOU
200 POKE 529.HI!REM UTIMRl UECTOR HI
210 POKE 53761, 0:REM UOLUME TO ZERO
220 POKE 53760,255 :REM FREQ OF TMRl
230 POKE 53769, 255:REM TURN ON TIMERS
240 POKE 16.193:REM SET TMINTl
Done. . .":? !? "Next:-:?
250 ?
D the progran to be Profiled.
260 ? !? "ENTER ";CHRSC34»
. LST"; CHRS C34J : ?
270 ? :? "HUN"
! ?
i?
LUA
'D!PR0FILE2
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1 REM BASIC PROFILER. PART II
XE REVISION BY ERIC MOODRUFF
CO 1989, ANTIC PUBLISHING
2 x = usRcADRc" ha?iniin[Gi-3Ba[iik^bs i mirrHgBnacaina
n(at:[an[a[aHnBi«c!3asiis"Hii)Bi«">> !REM clear extr
A RAM
3 POKE 1278,l!REM START PROFILING.
31765 POKE 1278,0.-REM STOP PROFILING
31766 ? "Done..."!? :? "Next:":? :? "R
UN ";CHRSC34» ;"D!PR0FILE3.BAS";CHRSC34
I
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PART 3
18 HEM BASIC PROFILER,
20 HEM DY STAN LACKEY
30 REM XE REUISION BY ERIC MOODRUFF
40 REM cc) 1989, ANTIC PUBLISHING
58 HEM
60 POKE 1278,8:GRAPHICS 0:POKE 710.146
:POKE 712.146
70 POKE 5S9.0!RESTORE 80:FOR 1=39424 T
0 39655:READ A:POKE I.A:NEXT I
80 DATA 104.104,133.223.133,221.184.13
3,222,133.228.104.104,133,207.173.1.21
1.133.288.169.8,133,218,133,219
90 DATA 133,214,133,215.165,218,133,20
3, 165. 219. 10, 24, 6, 203. 105. 0,201. 64. 176
.4.160.0,24 8,18,201,128
180 DATA 176.4,160,1,288,10,201,192,17
6, 4, 160, 2. 208. 2. 160. 3. 41. 63. 9, 64, 133. 2
04.152.10.10.24
110 DATA 105,193.141.1.211,160.1.177.2
03, 208, 6, 136. 177. 203. 24 0, 93, 200. 177. 20
3,133.227.197.215.144,84,208
120 DATA 7.136,177.203,197,214.144,75.
160.0.177.203.133,22 6,165.219,133.225.
165.218,133,224.165.208,141,1
130 DATA 211,165.220.133,285,165,221.1
33.206. 168,8,17 7,205,197.224.20 8.7.200
.177.205.197.22 5,240,33,169.4
140 DATA 24.101.205.133.205.144.2,230,
206,160.0.169,255,209,205,208,222,200.
209,2 05,208,217,162,3-181,224
150 DATA 149,212,202,16,249.165.208.14
1.1,211.230.218.208.4.230.219.48,3,76.
38.154.160.3.185.212.0
160 DATA 145,222,136,16,248,165.222.24
.105. 4, 133. 222. 144.2,238.223.198,207.2
40,3, 76,20,154. 96
170 REM ANALYSIS STRING: 4 BYTES PER E
NTHY
180 REM LO. HI BYTE OF COUNTER,
190 REM LO. HI BYTE OF COUNT.
200 REM
210 DIM ANLSH023> . YNSdJ
220 ANLSC1J=CHRSC255» : ANLS cl023> =CHRS c
255* : ANLSC2l=ANLS
230 TRAP 230:POKE 559.34:? "18 Profil
er BottienecK Analysis":? :?
240 ? "How nanv bottlenecks do uou wan
t":? "to see <l-255»"; :INPUT NUM
250 IF NUM<1 OR NUM>255 THEN 240
260 ? :? "Are you sure CY^N>":INPUT YN
•N'
THEN 260
270 IF YNSO
280 IF YNSO
290 ? :
will be
n . " : ?
300 TMIN=INT t CNUM^255>»485>+1!IF TMIN<
68 THEN T5EC=TMIN:TMIN=0:G0T0 320
310 TSEC = TMIN-INT CTMIN''60> »60 : TMIN = INT
<TMIN'60>
320 ? "EstiMated tine cM:SSi
:";TSEC
Y" AND YNSO'
Y" THEN 230
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blank to speed up caicuiatio
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CT=ftSCcflNLSc
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IF VNS="P" T
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PERCENT". "CU
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256
CT=A5C«:ftNLSc
3>»»»256
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V= tINTc8.S*l
X=CINTC8.5+1
IF VN$="S" T
IF VN*="P" T
NEXT I:POKE
POKE 752.1!? "BinNALYSI
TO N0nw4 STEP 4
i? "TOTAL CaUNTS:"iTC
I+2.I+2JJ+ASCCANLSCI+3
CT08 THEN NEXT I
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AND YNS<>"P" THEN 488
HEN LPRINT "TOTAL COUN
LINE". "COUNT". "PERCENT
HEN PRINT "LINE". "COUN
ML y."
1 TO NUI1W4 STEP 4
I.UJ+ASC cANLSci + 1.1 + 1
I+2.I+2»>+ASC<ANLScl+3
548
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88e8wcumi^iee
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HEN LPRINT LN.CT.X.Y
752.8:END
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18 REM BASIC LOADER FOR PR0FILE2.LST
28 REtl BY STAN LACKEY
38 REM cc» 1985.1988 ANTIC PUBLISHING
48 REM CLINES 18-258 MAY BE USED HITH
OTHER BASIC LOADERS IN THIS ISSUE.
58 REM CHANGE LINE 78 AS NECESSARY.}
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68 DIM FNSc28> . TEMPiSc2BJ . AR$c93» !DPL = P
EEK(18592i iPOKE 10592.255
78 FNS="D:LINES.LST":REM THIS IS THE N
AME OF THE DISK FILE TO BE CREATED
88 ? "HCQiSK or [iassette?" ; : POKE 764.25
5
98 IF NOT cPEEKt764»=18 OR PEEKt764>=
581 THEN 98
188 IF PEEKt764>=18 THEN FNS='
118 POKE 764.255:GRAPHICS 8:?
TIC'S GENERIC BASIC LOADER"
128 ? ."BY CHARLES JACKSON"
138 POKE 18592. DPL:TRAP 288
148 ? !? :? "Creating ";FNS!?
se stand bn."
150 RESTORE :HEAD LN:LM=LN:DIM A$ cLNi :
C = l
168 ARS=""iREAD ARS
178 FOR X=l TO LEN(AR$> STEP 3i
2.255
180 LM=LM-l:POSITION 10.10:?
wn . . . T-"; INT tLM''10> ; ">
198 A$cC.C>=CHRScUALcARScX.X+2>>> :C=C+
l:NEXT X:GOTO 168
208 IF PEEKC195}=5 THEN ? :? :? "HTOO
MANY DATA LINES!":? "CANNOT CREATE FIL
E!":END
218 IF C<LN+1 THEN ? :? "QTOO FEW DATA
LINES!":? "CANNOT CREATE FILE!":END
228 IF FNS="C:" THEN ? :? " Prepare ca
ssette. press [RETURN^"
238 OPEN <<1.8.8,FN$
248 POKE 766.1:? t<i;A$;:POKE 766.8
258 CLOSE Ml: GRAPHICS 8:? "â– H[i|[ilB[![ili[s*[llB
It
1800 DATA 82
1610 DATA 0500320888610850830820400658
688828488341841698831332 85174 881211165
285010018024185193141881211
1020 DATA 1688881698641332841521332831
452032382032082502302 04 01624 61982 05016
223142001211096034041041058
1038 DATA 0820698?7e328e7e76e698650820
32069088084082065032082065077155
EASIEST ROUTE TO YOUR DISK CONTENTS
QUICK DlREClORY ArHcleonpase22
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0 REM SAUE"D:QDIRMAK.BAS"
10 Din J$C101
20 GRAPHICS 0:? "QuicK Directors. bW M
atwRat"
30 ? "cc> 1989. Antic Publishing"
48 ? :? "Get disK in Drive 1 read!^"
58 ? "and press RETURN ";:INPUT JS:? :
7
68 RESTORE
78 TRAP 80:OPEN ni . 8 . 0. "D : ODIR" : GOTO 9
0
88 ? "Couidn-t create D:aDIR.":? "ERRO
R ";PEEKC195» : END
90 REM 7 «1;"10 ";
100 7 »»1;"CLR:DIM AS C153J : AS cl . 108* =" ;
CHR$c34> ;
110 FOR 1=1 TO 100
120 READ A:? ttl;CHRS<A>:
130 NEXT I
140 7 nl;CHRSc343 ;CHR$cl55> ;
150 REM 7 »1;"20 ";
160 7 »»1;"AS cl81.153»=";CHHSc34J ;
170 FOR 1=101 TO 153
180 READ A:? ttl;CHR$cAl:
198 NEXT I
208 7 «1;CHRS<34J ;" :? " ; CHRS c34» ; "D ir
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218 CLOSE »l
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220 7 :? "Done."
238 ? "Tr« E .".•CHRSc34> ;"D:QDIR"
248 7 "to set a quick director!*"
250 7 "listing now!":? !? :?
268 7 :? "E. ";CHR$ C34I ;"D:ODIR"; CHR$C2
B>;CHR$c2 8>;CHR$c2e> :END
278 DATA 184.248.6.178.184.184.282.288
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;n
UEMD: QDIR.neS
Sti.tt- ,ttD:aDIR.OBJ
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JECT = 1
DE = OEIJECT
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to create an object file
: to be used froM a BASIC
; USR routine-
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; naKe a stand alone -COM
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0800 BEGIN
OuicK Directory by MatwRat
Ratware SoftworKS
(ci 1989> Antic Publishing
A quicK and dirtw utility
for setting a coMPiete
directory listing while in
Atari BASIC.
The BASIC progran ODIRMAK.BAS
will create a the files
Dl: ODIR.
FroH BASIC innediate node .
use the coMHand:
E ."DiQDIR
The user will be proMPted for
a directory specification,
and a DIR will be displayed-
If it's a SpartaDOS disk,
the directory will be listed
in LONG fornat.
XCORD = $55
VCORD = $54
SflUnSC = $58
STRING = $FC
FILEBUF = $0400
CIO = $E456
ICCOM = $0342
ICBADR = $0344
ICBLEN = $0348
ICAUXl = $834A
ICAUX2 = $834B
COPN = 3
CCLOSE = 12
CGTXR = 5
CPTXR = 9
CGBINR = 7
CPBINR = 11
CDRAU = 17
CFILL = 18
OPIN = 4
OPOUT = 8
OPDIR = 6
;String ptr
;Cas buffer
;CALL OS HERE
;connnND to cio
; BUFFER OR FNAME
;BUFFER LENGTH
;AUX BYTE wl
;AUX BYTE «2
; COMMAND OPEN
;COMMAND CLOSE
;GET TEXT REC
;PUT TEXT REC
;GET BINARY REC
;PUT BINARY REC
J COMMAND DRAUTO
; COMMAND FILL
OPEN FOR INPUT
OPEN FOR OUTPUT
OPEN FOR DIR
A=USRfADRcBDIR$> . ADR c-Dl s « .«"»>
aDIR$ holds the code that foiio
It puiis the address of the
directory specification string
off the stack- It allows the us
to enter a file specification,
such as D2:w-BAS/ which is then
used for a directory listing-
-ORG $3488
-OPT OBJ
-IF CODE=OBJECT
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TAX
OCTOBER 1989
Tech Tips
XY COORDINATES TO SCREEN MEMORY
Tech Tips regular Greg Vozzo of Brightwaters,
New York shows how to convert X-Y coordinates
(such as those used in PLOT, DRAWTO, etc) into
screen memory locations used by PEEK and POKE.
Type RUN to start the program, which will fill screen
memory (and thus the screen) with Os.
To RUN the second part of the program, type
GOTO 50. This POKEs a 0 into screen memory, con-
verts the location into X-Y coordinates, and then
prints an A there. The third section of the program
is run by typing GOTO 200. This will print HELLO
at the designated X-Y coordinates and then over-
write the word by POKEing Os into the appropriate
screen memory locations.
^S^ Don't type the
Voi5l TYPO II Codes!
GK le GRAPHICS esREM DsnnBfiimiaiMfsi
UM 28 n = PEEKca8J+PEEKt89>»256:REI1 r«aBN|i|liJ
i[iiriia(irirN[:ir^[^mB[ii9[ii[iii:in
DX 38 FOR 1=8 TO 959!P0KE ft+I,16:NEXT I:R
E M »r^[:im[^@Biiinn[iBriiDiinB(^[sri)t^[3|[i^Hnii[^[ii[iii:<n
VS 48 END
EL 50 GRAPHICS 8 : ft=PEEK C88J +PEEK C89 J »256 :
POKE A-'-ise.ieiREn li^maHraBraaijiifiiLiDJBi-iMiiii^r^iiiiH
LZ 68 Z=48:REM « OF COLUMNS IN MODE 8.
ZL 78 V = INT(15e^Z>:REM D^r^lBtSidlglBBaiBBklli IfitBCJ
YL 88 X = 156-cyKZ>:REM raOOlflfilfflDBIilSliirjlDGniilllE!
VS 98 FOR P = l TO 750: NEXT P = REM [arilLOHl:*
HU 188 POSITION X.Y:? "fl-iREn [SJUJIMmiiflBBIbllllB
[>'|[iUT^
NS lie END
SZ 288 GRAPHICS 6 : A=PEEK c88> +PEEK (891 w256
X-18: Y = 10:Z=48:POSITION X-Vs? "HELLO"
<:^
Don't type the
TypO II Codes!
EN
00
CV
NZ
NA
218 FOR P=l TO 75e:NEXT P
228 FOR 1 = 8 TO 4:REM [irii[i!imkiriH[i1ljlBr:iL:4mn[i|
230 POKE A* c tY»Z»*X>+I. 16 :NEXT I = HEM â–
248 END
2 5 0 REM oiiJr-i[i(r^iii'i[:ii3((.ir^(-^aBHi]nBij[:ir=iB(=triiiiit-iiiiri(iii;it--i
BiiJb'eiBiiii^^BriiiinnnaiaB
FIVE-COLOR CURSOR TEXT
ANTIC modes 4 and 5 (same as Graphics 12 and 13)
are special in that they allow four colors in a single char-
acter, and five on the whole screen. However, there is no
cursor
This program, also by Greg Vozzo of Brightwaters, New
York, sets up a GRAPHICS 0 screen and changes it to a
mixed screen of ANTIC modes 2, 4 and 5. The character
set is altered and the screen colors are changed. Finally
text is printed — and a cursor is present.
How did this happen? The redefined character set al-
tered the SPACE character, which occupies the whole
screen, into a solid block. This way, the cursor will show
up in the color assigned to location 712 (background)
when it overlays the solid block. In addition, the now-
solid playfield is its own color, separate from the back-
ground, so a screen border is possible.
ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY
GY
5U
E5
GL
BG
DU
HK
SU
JD
ZP
JR
OQ
DM
5 POKE 106.PEEKC740>-4:REM RESET RAMTO
P AND RESERUE ROOM FOR THE CHR SET.
10 GRAPHICS 0 :DL=PEEKc568»+PEEKt561J»2
56:REM FIND TOP OF DISPLAY LIST.
20 POKE DL+3,68!REM SET LMS FOR TOP MO
DE LINE TO ANTIC MODE 4
30 FOR I=DL+6 TO DL+2e:P0KE I,4:NEXT I
:REM SET MORE MODE LINES.
40 POKE DL-^19.5:P0KE DL + 20.5:POKE DL + 2
7,65:PaKE DL«28 , PEEK c56e> : POKE DL+29,P
EEKc561>:REM SET TMO ANTIC 5 LINES
50 REM AND DEFINE THE BOTTOM OF THE DI
SPLAY LIST. NOU SET UP CHARACTER SET'-
100 FOR 1 = 0 TO 1023:POKE PEEK C186> »«256
+I.PEEKC57344+IJ :NEXT I : REM MOUE ROM C
HARACTER SET INTO RAM.
110 POKE 756,PEEKcie6> :FOR 1=0 TO 7:P0
KE PEEK(1063w256+I,255sNEXT I:REM ENAB
LE CHR. SET « FILL ALL "SPACE" CHR5.
120 POKE 712.100:POKE 718.148:P0KE 711
,68:P0KE 789,42:P0KE 708,0:REM COLORS
130 ? "HELLO BCiaafflmB": POSITION 2.14 = ?
"HELLO":POKE DL+22,2:? :? :? "BUSHBARR
[l]UBK[§IVSBT[i]BM[llU[»CURSCQRBAR[ilUNDB"
140 RESTORE sFOR 1=1 TO 4:READ A:FOR J
= PEEKC106>»«256 + A*»8 TO PEEK(106> w25e*A«
8*7!READ B:POKE J,B:NEXT J:NEXT I
158 DATA 40, 255, 187. 187>171> 187.187.18
7, 255, 37, 255. 171, 191. 171. 191. 191. 171. 2
55.44.255.191.191.191,191.191.171.255
160 DATA 47.255,171,187,187,187,187,17
1.255
LINE WIPER
This short program by Mark Perez, of Fremont, Cali-
fornia produces an impressive "line wipe" effect for eras-
ing text from the screen. Its secret lies in the clever use
of the AT\SCII character set in WIPElJf and WIPE2J!. Use
this routine to dress up your own programs
t^
UR
AD
Oft
UA
OF
CU
PZ
GZ
UN
FU
HS
UU
FP
DD
Don't type the
TYPO II Codes!
10 DIM MSG$(48> .MIPE1$(4> .UIPE25C4)
2 8 M S G $ = "BBbimnniaBIII^SE^SQIjnSHBfKaSBQQmaBBbl
msramBBISHBB"
30 WIPElS = "Lin»":MIPE2S = "Bi:i[J "
40 POKE 82.0:GRAPHICS e:POKE 718.0:POK
E 752.1
50 FOR UIPE0N=1 TO LENcMSGSi
60 FOR FX=1 TO 3:PRINT UIPEIS cFX . FXi ; :
PRINT "B";:FOR D=l TO SsNEXT D:NEXT FX
70 PRINT MSG$(UIPEON,UIPEON>
TO 5:NEXT D
88 NEXT MIPEON
180 FOR UIPE0FF=1
lie FOR FX=1 TO 3
FOR D=l
PRINT
TO LEN(MSG$>
PRINT HIPE2$(FX,FX>
FOR 0=1 TO 5:NEXT D:NEXT F
120 PRINT " "; :FOR D = l
130 NEXT UIPEOFF
140 ? "B"; : GOTO 50
TO 5!NEXT 0
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section gives oscilloscope and
logic probe readings allowing you
to narrow the malfunction down to
a specific chip or transistorl
800, 800XL, 130XE, 400, 1025
and 1050 $19.50 each
520ST Service Manual. $37.50
MISCELLANEOUS
13 Pin Serial I/O Cable $4.50
600XL 64K Upgrade Kit . . $29.95
SUPRA 300 Baud Modem $29.95
ACE Joystick $7.95
800XL RF Modulator $9.50
1050 Track Zero Sensor . . . $8.50
2793 1050 Controller IC . . . $19.50
U.S. Doubter $29.95
400 Board Set (W/O Kybd) $22.95
Paddle Controllers (Pair) . . . $9.95
Rev. "C" Basic ROM $15.00
Fastchip for 800/400 $15.50
Rambo XL w/o RAM IC's $39.95
850 or PR lybdem Cable . . $14.50
850 or PR Printer Cable . . . $14.50
Printer Interface $43.95
I/O 13 Pin PC connector . . . $4.50
I/O 13 Pin Cable end plug . . $4.50
ST 6' Disk Drive Cable .. . $14.00
ST Monitor Cabte connector $5 .50
1027 INK ROLLER $6.50
1030 Modem Power Pack . . $6.95
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CARTRIDGES
For XL's'XE's 800/400
POLE POSITION Caitritlge $15.00
STAR WARS - Return ol Iho Jedi . . $15.00
PAC-MAN Cartridge $4.00
DELUXE INVADERS Cartridge $4.00
JOURNEY TO THE PLANETS Cart. $4.00
GORF Carl, 800/400 Only $4.00
DONKEY KONG Cartridge $5.00
STAR RAIDERS Cartridge $5.00
MILLIPEDE Cartridge $10.00
PLATTER MANIA CirL by Epyx . . $9.95
WIZARD OF WORCarHidge $9.95
CAVERNS OF MARS Cartridge , . $14.50
PENGO CtJIridgo $15.00
EASTERN FRONT Cartridge $15.00
ATARIWRITER Cartridge $29.95
TURMOIL Cartridge $5.00
CROSSFIRE Cartridge $7.50
SPRINGER Cartridge $7,50
ADVENTURE CREATOR Cartridge $12-50
ZONE RANGER Cartridge $12,50
SILICON WARRIOR Cartridge , , , . $12,50
MATH ENCOUNTER Carlrldgs, , , $12,50
PILOT LANGUAGE PACKAGE . . . $17,50
SPARTADOS-X Cartridge. ,, . $59,95
ACTION OS S Cartridge $59,95
ACTION TOOL KIT DISK $25,00
MAC-65 0,S,S, Cartridge $59.95
MAC-65 TOOL KIT DISK $25,00
R-TIME 8 Cartridge $56,95
SPINNAKER EDUCATIONALCARTRIDGES
KINDERCOMP Cartridge $8,75
FRACTION FEVERCartridge... $8,75
FACEMAKER Cartridge $8,75
ALPHABET ZOO Cartridge $8,75
UP FOR GRABS Cartidge $8,75
ALF IN THE COLOR CAVES CarL $8,75
DELTA DRAWING Cartridge $875
STORY MACHINE 800/400 wily $8,75
LINKING LOGIC (Fisher-Price) CarL $8,75
HOT DISK TITLES
BEST SELLERS/ LOW PRICES
• F-15 STRIKE EAGLE $14.95
• TOP GUNNER COLLECTION. . . $14 95
• SILENT SERVICE $14,95
• KENNEDY APPROACH $14,95
â– VIDEOTITLE SHOP (64K) $12,50
• CHESSMASTER 20OO $12,50
• ALTERNATE REAUTY THE CrrV $12,50
â– ALTERNATE REAUTY DUNGEON $12.50
• TOMAHAWK (64K) $12.50
•221-BBAKERSTREET(64K) $12.50
• MUSIC STUDIO $12,50
â– TEMPLE OF APSHAI $12,50
â– BRIDGE 40 $12,50
â– HOTEL ALIEN $12.50
• NATO COMMANDER $14,95
• HELLCAT ACE $9 95
COMPUTER BOOKS
Atari Playground Workbook $5.95
HackerBook Tricks & Tips $5.00
Inside Atari Basic ^^
Atari Basic Ref. manual. $5.00
How to Atari 6502 Program $5.00
Write Your Ovm Games. $5.00
Programmers Ref. Guide $14.95
Assembly Language Guide $21.95
XE Users Handbook .... $21.95
XL Users Handbook .... $21.95
Atari Basic Faster & Better $22.95
Your Atari Computer $17.95
SERIAL I/O CABLE
High Quality, 13Pin $4.50
Special ... 3 Cables for $10.00
MAC-65 CARTRIDGE
6502 Machine language Macro-
Assembler. First class tool for
serious programmers. . . $59.95
ATARI 850 INTERFACE
Bare PC Board with parts list and
crystal $4.50
PR: CONNECTION
Serial/ Parallel Interface for connecting
modems and printers $65.00
BASIC CARTRIDGE
Exact replacement for
800/400/ 1200XL $15.00
SUPRA MODEM
Supra 300 Baud Direct Connect
Modem requires no separate
interface. Includes cable and Disk
Software. Supports X-Modem,
Download & Upload $29.95
'^Disks-XL'^XE's/800'
I F-15 STRIKE EAGLE Disk $14,95
I TOP GUNNER COLLECTION ,, , $14,95
I SILENTSERVICE Disk $14,95
I KENNEDY APPROACH Disk $14,95
I NATO COMMANDER Disk $14,95
I S.A,T, MATH $17.95
I S A.T. VOCABULARY $17.95
I VISICALC Spreadsheet $19,95
1 BOOKKEEPER & CX8S KEYPAD , $19,95
I SPIDER MAN Disk $4,95
I DAVIDS MIDNIGHT MAGIC Disk $4,95
I ALIEN AMBUSH Disk $4,95
1 REAR GUARD Disk $4,95
I TECHNA-COLOR DREAM Disk, , , $4,95
1 FREAKY FACTORY Disk $4,95
LASER HAWK Disk $4.95
I ROCKET REPAIRMAN Disk $4.95
I HUMAN TORCH STHE THING, , . $5.00
I MUSICAL PILOT Ed. Disk $5.00
ICON-PUTATION Disk $5.00
I MASTER CHESS Disk $5.00
I SPEED KING Disk $5.00
I LAST V-8 Disk $5,00
I PATHFINDER Disk $5,00
I MATCH RACER Disk $5.00
I WOMBATS 1 Adventure Disk $5,00
I FAMILY FINANCE Disk t)y Atari , , $6,50
FORT APOCALYPSE Disk $7.50
NINJA Dsk $7.50
ELECTRA-GUDE Disk $7.50
SPORTS SPECTACULAR Disk, , , $7.50
I THE GAMBLER Disk $7.50
I STRATOS Disk $7.50
I MIND MAZES (Educational) $7.50
I TIMEWISE $7,50
I VI DEO VEGAS Poker S Slots $9,95
I ACTION BIKER $9.95
I KICK START $9-95
MONEY TOOLS (Financial Utility)- - $9-95
DIG DUG Disk $9 95
I REPTON Disk $9,95
I PUZZLE PANIC Disk by Epyrr ,,, , $9,95
I CEST'E LA VE Disk $9,95
I WOMPER STOMPER Disk $9,95
I OLIN EMERALD (Jr,. Adv.) $9,95
I MOVIE MAKER (Graphics) $9,95
I FINANCIAL COOKBOOK $9,95
I CYCLE KNIGHT $9,95
I SONG WRITER $9,95
I COUNTINGS ADDING wthTink , . $9,95
I CHESSMASTER 2000 $12,50
I BRIDGE 4,0 $12,50
I PEGAMMON $12.50
1 MUSIC STUDIO $12.50
I HOTEL ALIEN $12.50
I GHOST CHASER $12.50
1 LA. SWAT $12.50
I GRANDMA'S HOUSE (Educabonal) $12.50
1 DROPZONE Disk $12.50
I CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN Disk, .. $12,50
I BEYOND CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN $12,50
I TEMPLE OF APSHAI $12.50
ALI-ANTS Disk $12,50
I MOUSE QUEST Disk (64K) $12,50
I ELECTRONIC DRUMMER Disk , . $12.50
I STOCK MARKET Game $12.50
I PIRATES OF THE BARBARY COAST $12.50
I NICKERBOCKER Disk $12.50
1 MIDWAY BATTLES War Game . . $12.50
I BOULDER DASH Constructitan Set $14,95
MOONMIST (Inlocom Adventure) $14,95
MIND SHADOW Adventure 64K , , $14,95
I HACKER Adventure $14,95
I SEA STALKER Adventure $14.95
I STATION FALL Adventure $14.95
1 ZORK 1 Adventure $14.95
I INFIDEL Adventure $14 95
I HOLLYWOOD HIJINKS Adventure $14.95
I CONFLICT IN VIETNAM $14.95
I DECISION IN THE DESERT $14.95
CRUSADE IN EUROPE $14.95
I SPITFIRE ACE $14.95
I SSI 50 MISSION CRUSH $14 95
I SSI BATTALION COMMANDER - - $14,95
I SSI PANZER GRENADIER 114,95
I SSI FIELD OF FIRE $14,95
I SSI GEMSTONE WARRIOR $14,95
I MASTERTYPE (Typing Tutor) , , , $15,00
I BANK STREET WRITER $17,50
I CUT S PASTE W,P, Disk $17,50
I SPARTADOS CONST, SET ... . $39,50
I SPART ADOS Tool-Kit $32,95
I UK DATA PERFECT Database . . , $CALL
DATASOFT DISKS
I VIDEOTITLE SHOP $12.50
I ALTERNATE REALITY (The City) $12.50
I ALTERNATE REAUTYTheDungecn $12,50
I 20RR0 Disk $9,95
I SARACEN Disk $9,95
I CROSSCHECK Disk $9,95
I GUNSLINGER Disk (64K) $9,95
{tomahawk HeJicopter Game 64K $12,50
I THEATER EUROPE War Game, , $12,50
I BRUCE LEE Disk $12.50
I MERCENARY Disk $12,50
I THE GOONIES Disk $12,50
I CONAN Disk $12,50
I NEVER ENDING STORY (64K) ,, $12,50
I 221.B BAKER STREET (64K) , , , $12,50
I Napolean in Russia (Borodino 1812) $12 50
I BISMARCK $12,50
ImOON SHUTTLE $12,50 ,
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